Copy of Bhavishya Purana

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On 30 Dec 1999, Nayana-ranjana das wrote:

 

> Can any kind Vaisnava help me to find a computer file of Bhavishya Purana?

> If not available then in the form of a printed book. Which printed version

> of Bhavishya Purana is most authorized?

>

> Your servant,

> Nayana-raJjana dAsa

 

I'm not sure how you define "authorized" in this case, but Nag Publishers has

printed what I think is a "critical edition" of the Bhavishya Puraana that is

currently available from most Indian bookstores (or else they can order for

it). Like the other Nag publications, this one is well done. The Sanskrit

print is easy enough to read (assuming you can read devanaagari), and it

contains a verse index. Also like other Nag publications, this one is Sanskrit

only - it does not contain the translation.

 

Nag Publishers is in the process of reprinting all of the Puraanas formerly

published by the Venkateshwara Steam Press in Mumbai. The nice thing is that

Motilal Banarsidass is also in the process of publishing "translations" of all

of the Venkateshwara Steam Press editions of the various Puraanas. So if you

get the Nag Publishers publication and the Motilal publication for a given

puraana, you will have both the Sanskrit and the English translation, and

there *should* be one-to-one correspondence, since they are both based on the

same edition.

 

Unfortunately, as per my last trip to India (April 1999), Motilal still has

not published their translation of the Bhavishya Puraana yet. But you might

want to go ahead and get the Nag Publishers Bhavishya Puraana. The

introduction to it seems to imply that it does contain the verses describing

Chaitanya Mahaaprabhu's unmanifest liila during which He instructs the other

four aachaaryas.

 

Hope this helps.

 

-- Krishna Susarla