VAYU PURAN
Vayu and Vayaviya Puranas do
share a very large overlap in their
structure and contents, possibly because they once were the same, but with continuous revisions over the centuries,
the original text became two different texts, and the Vayaviya text came also to be known as the Brahmanda Purana.
History
The Vayu Purana is mentioned in chapter 3.191 of the Mahabharata, and section 1.7 of the Harivamsa, suggesting that the text existed in the first half of the 1st-millennium CE. The 7th-century Sanskrit prose writer Banabhatta refers to this work in his Kadambari and Harshacharita. In chapter 3 of the Harshacharita Banabhatta remarks that the Vayu Purana was read out to him in his native village. Alberuni (973-1048), the Persian scholar who visited and lived in northwest Indian subcontinent for many years in early 11th century quoted from the version of Vayu Purana that existed during his visit. The various mentions of the Vayu Purana in other texts have led scholars to recognize it as one of the oldest.
MATSYA PURAN
Date
The Matsya Purana, like all Puranas, was revised and updated continuously. The composition of the text may have begun in the last centuries of the 1st-millennium BCE, and its first version complete by about the 3rd-century of the common era,
asserts Ramachandra Dikshitar – known for proposing ancient dates for Indian literature. Other scholars, such as Pandurang Vaman Kane, place the earliest version of the text to between c. 200–500 CE. The Matsya Purana, in
chapter 53, includes a note stating that as a Purana, it is supposed to be edited and revised to remain useful to the society. Wendy Doniger dates the Matsya Purana to have been composed between 250 to 500 CE. The general consensus among scholars is that Matsya Purana is among the older Purana, with its first version complete in the 3rd-century CE, but sections of it were routinely revised, deleted and expanded over the centuries,through the 2nd-millennium CE
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