I suppose that your query has long since been answered privately, but we cannot know for sure. There is a statement in some of these volumes that the whole series (Ancient Indian Tradition and Mythology) is translated from the Venkatesvara Steam Press editions, which in this statement are termed the vulgate. As is well known, the Venkatesvara editions were in most cases simply printed versions of a particular manuscript of that purana, correcting only obvious scribal errors, since the purpose was to make the puranas available on print. Of the ones you mentioned, I have seen that the Vayu is in fact translated from the Venkatesvara edition, and a spot check of the Linga also indicates the same. So I assume that the others are, too. However, the Skanda translation is a reprint of an earlier translation published starting in 1950, rather than being newly translated for the series. So I do not know what edition that translation was based on. 

Best regards,

David Reigle

Colorado, U.S.A.

On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 10:37 AM Paolo Eugenio Rosati <paoloe.rosati@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear indologists,

anyone can help me to identify on which published edition or manuscript are based the following translations:

Shastri, Jagdish L., ed., 1981. The Kūrma-Purāṇa. vol. 1 of 2. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass.

Shastri, Jagdish L., ed., 1985. The Brahmāpurāṇa. Translated and Annotated by a Board of Scholars. vol. 1 of 4. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass.

Shastri, Jagdish L., ed., 1998. The Liṅgapurāṇa. Translated by a Board of Scholars. vol. 2 of 2. Delhi/Patna/Varanasi: Motilal Banarsidass.

Tagare, Ganesh V., ed., 1992. The Skandapurāṇa. Translated and Annotated. Vol. 1 of 23. New Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass.

Tagare, Ganesh V. ed., 1987. Vāyupurāṇa: Translated and Annotated. Vol. 1 of 2. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass.

Best wishes,

Paolo

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