After erasing Yosemite and reinstalling Lion can't update

Hello,
I wonder if anyone might have some suggestions for my problem. I installed Yosemite and after constant troubles finally erased my hard drive and did an internet recovery to reinstall Mountain Lion. Internet recovery installed 10.8.5 along with Safari 6.0.5. When I go to the app store to check for updates, only Yosemite comes up and I cannot locate any security updates nor the version of Safari I was running before the Yosemite mess. I searched the Apple site, but really don't know what I should be looking for. I cannot locate any versions of Safari for Mountain Lion, even though I was running an updated version that included DuckDuckGo as a search option.
Can anybody give me some pointers? I would be very grateful as I know I am not using the most secure updates available on my computer. I have a late 2012 Macbook Pro.
Thanks kindly in advance.

Just an update-the next day I was able to retrieve updates for Mountain Lion. Don't know what happened, so I can't provide any suggestions for one who might experience this.

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