Dear list,

I am looking for a couple of references from the Devipurana.

I found---throughout secundary literature---some references that probably derived from this edition:

Devīpurāṇa, ed. with a Bengali translation by Pancanana Tarkaratna. Calcutta, 1928.

while I have got (thanks to the list!) this edition:
Devīpurāṇa. Kumar, Sharma P. (ed.) 1976. Devī Purāṇam. New Delhi: Sri Lal Bahadur Shastri Kendriya Sanskrit Vidyapeeth.

Actually I do not know if the two eds are based on different mss, but I was unable to find out verse (39.6) that should says:

yajed ... devIM kAmAkhye girikandare (Van Kooij 1972, 32n3---based on Bengali trans.)

although some scholars wrote that in this verse should also be a reference to the son of Bhumi (earth goddess) and cited the Kumar ed. (v. 39.6b)---but in Kumar ed. there is the verse that speak of Kamakhya neither it speak about a "Bhauma".

The second part that I am looking for is a so-called Appendix 1 list 7 (cit. in Dehejia 1986, Yogini Cult and Temples), although in her bibliography it is not cited any DP ms or edition. Thus, I imagine this appendix was somewhere through the Kumar ed. (or maybe not) or perhaps she confused with another text?!
Dehejia wrote that in this list were enumerated 64 devi-pithas from which depend on the two yogini lists of the Kalikapurana (Chs. 54 and 63, in B. Shastri [1991] 2008).

I wish someone could help in find out the verse and the appendix that I was unable to find out from Kumar ed. of DP.

Best wishes,

Paolo

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Paolo E. Rosati

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