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  An early work that quotes the pAJNcharAtra saMhitAs is namedspandapradIpikA by utpala vaishhNava, who flourished in

kAshmIra in the tenth century. While most of his quotations makeonly a general reference to " pAJNcharAtra, pAJNcharAtra - shrutiand pAJNcharAtra upanishhad ", the names of the paushhkara,jayAkhya (or jayA), and sAtvata are mentioned at every quotation,usually with the honorific prefix ' shrI '. utpala vaishhNava quotesfourtimes from the jayAkhya - saMhitA. Although his quotationsare all traceable in the printed edition of the saMhitA, the wording of them is not always identical. Let us take a look, for comparison,

at two of his shorter quotations:

(1) तद  ुतं जााम  

माेवो जगनाथः क  ृ वा ममं तन  मु  ्( पददीपका) 

माेवो जगनाथः क  ृ वा मयमं तन  मु  ्( जाखसंता 

१.६३) 

 The second line is the same in both the texts: 

मनान उरते लोकान   ्काणाछापािना (पददीपका =

जाख १.६४ab)

(2) तद  ुतं जाां

दैं तं जपं व लसणखाधकं म  नुे ( पददीपका) 

एक मनाथ अतर बाहोदत च । 

दैं तजपो व  लसखंाभो वते  ् (जाखसंता 

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१४.६९) 

Compare also a larger one in spandapradIpikA with jayAkhya -saMhitA 20.233 - 239. Only one quotation out of the four is

identical with jyAkhya - saMhitA 10.69. From these instances itseems possible that utpala may have cited many of the passagesnot from another version, but from memory. The same is probably true of his quotation that is: 

पञचराऽेप  

ासादम आह  अशोचः शोचतो जनान  ्   भूमषठान  ् व 

शैलथः सवायन  ् ाोऽन  पुत  ॥ 

 This is a well known verse quoted in the yogabhAshhya(1.47) where it is named paramarshhi gAthA by the commentators. Analmost identical verse to the utpala quotation is found in theahirbudhya - saMhitA 15.71 cd 72ab: 

ाासादम आढो वम  ुतः सरवतो जनःै । 

  भूमषठान  ् व शलैथः पन   ्सवायन  ् अवथतान  ् ॥ 

B.N.K. Sharma writes:" According to Schrader (p.16) the paJNcharAtras originated in N.India and subsequently spread to the South. It is significant thatone of yAmuna's works now lost to us and devoted to the vindication of the validity of paJNcharAtra was entitled kashmIrAgama - prAmANya . utpala vaishhNava of kashmIra (10thcentury) refers in hisspandapradIpikA to paJNcharAtra shrutis andupanishhads besides their saMhitAs such as hamsapArameshvara,vaihAyasa and sAttvata. His father trivikrama utpala was originally a

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 vaishhNava. After the rise of the trika system in kashmIra,philosophical vaishhNavism became extinct in kashmIra.