Bhavisya Purana

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Devotees don't use Bhavisya P. very prominently because it is a rajasika

Purana. Scholars consider the present version inauthentic (tampered with).

 

Here is some info from our site www.veda.harekrsna.cz :

 

Bhavisya Purana

 

Krishna Susarla

 

Nag Publishers has printed what I think is a "critical edition" of the

Bhavisya Purana that is currently available from most Indian

bookstores (or else they can order it). Like the other Nag

publications, this one is well done. The Sanskrit print is easy enough

to read (assuming you can read devanagari) 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 Puranas

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 Purana, 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 Bhavisya Purana yet.

But you might want to go ahead and get the Nag Publishers Bhavisya

Purana. The introduction to it seems to imply that it does contain the

verses describing Caitanya Mahaprabhu's unmanifest lila during which

He instructs the other four acharyas.

 

 

Rector Press on its site http://www.airfirst.com/IndiaBooks.html

offers BHAVISYA MAHAPURANAM, 3 vols. (In Sanskrit. Introd. in

English). Nag Sharan Singh. set. $ 90.00

 

The series "Ancient Indian Tradition and Mythology : Mahapuranas"

edited by J.L. Shastri and G.P. Bhatt. ISBN 81-208-0289-6.

don't have Sanskrit, just English translations, but are accompanied

by a critical introduction, general index and footnotes.

300 to 400 pages per volume. Cloth Bound. Individual Vol.

Regular $ 20.00 each. Bhavisya Purana is under preparation.

 

At http://www.vedamsbooks.com/no13439.htm

they have it available from the same series: Bhavishya Mahapurana.

3 Vols., 1400 p.

 

 

Hope this helps.

 

Your servant, bh. Jan

 

www.veda.harekrsna.cz (Bhakti-yoga Vedic Encyclopedia Vedic Library)