ORIENTAL SERIES.

62 BRAHMA VAIVARTA PURANA.
summary manner, and in words which are common to it and
several other Puranas. A "brief description of the universe
succeeds ; and then come a number of chapters relating to the
holiness of Orissa, with its temples and sacred groves, dedicated
to the sun, to #iva, and Jagan-natha, the latter especially. These
chapters are characteristic of this Purana, and show its main
object to be the promotion of the worship of Krishna as Jagannatha.
To these particulars succeeds a life of Kn'shna, which is
word for word the same as that of the Vishnu Purana ] and the
compilation terminates with a particular detail of the mode in
which Yoga or contemplative devotion, the object of which is
still Vishnu, is to be performed. There is little in this which
corresponds with the definition of a Pancha-lakshana Purana, and
the mention of the temples of Orissa, the date of the original
construction of which is recorded, shows that it could not have
been compiled earlier than the thirteenth or fourteenth century."
This Purana has " a supplementary or concluding section called
the Brahmottara Purana, which contains about 3000 stanzas.
This bears still more entirely the character of a Mahatmya 01-
local legend, being intended to celebrate the sanctity of the
Balaja river, conjectured to be the same as the Banas in Marwar.
There is no clue to its date, but it is clearly modern, grafting
personages and fictions of its own invention on a few hints from
older authorities." Wilson.
BEAHMAESHI-DEA. " Kurukshetra, the Matsyas, true
Panchalas, and the Surasenas. This land, which comes to
Brahmavartta, is the land of Brahmarshis." Manu.
BEAHMAESHIS. .Z&shis of the Brahman caste, wb.o were
the founders of the gotras of Brahmans, and dwell in the sphere
of Brahma. See JKshi.
BEAHMA-SAVAEA 7
!. The tenth Manu. See Maiau,
BEAHMA StJTEAS. Aphorisms on the Vedanta philosophy
by Badarayana or Vyasa. They are also called Brahma Hunansa
Sutras. They are in course of translation by the Eei . K. M.
Banerjea in the JBibliotheca Indica.
BEAHMA VAIVAETA PURAJVA. " That Purana which
is related by Savarni to Narada, and contains the account of the
greatness of Krishna, with the occurrences of the Eafhantara-
kalpa, where also the story of Brahma-varaha is repeatedly told,
is called the Brahma Vaivarta Purafla, and contains 18,000