The Brihat Samhita of Varaha Mihira Shri Bharatvarshiya Digambar Jain Mahasabha the managing Proprietor of the

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Presentation of Indian Philosophy from the beginnings to the present times in which every phenomenon of importance finds its corresponding place

Introduction Originally the word Purana seems to have been understood in the sense of an 'old legend' but it is variously explained by different Puranas

Nevertheless I believe and hope that nothing of importance has been left out

the first words of the citations of sutras or sastras

The Brihat Samhita of Varaha Mihira Shri Bharatvarshiya Digambar Jain Mahasabha the managing Proprietor of thePreface India has long continued to be the centre of attraction not only in respect of its wealth and civilization but in that of its intellectual advancement. To it converged, as to a common focus, the eyes of foreigners from the earliest period of the world's history. It was the one fountain of knowledge from which issued streams to water distant lands of ignorance at every point of the compass, now yielding abundance of intellectual harvest. Time