Shataka Trayadi Subhashit Sangraha

SR No.: 002915
Original Sutra Author: Bhartuhari
Author: Dharmanand Kosambi
Publisher: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan
Publication Year: 1948
Total Pages: 346
Language: Hindi, English
Classification: Book_Devnagari & Literature
File Size: 22 MB

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INTRODUCTION
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most oatalogue descriptions of Bhartrhari MSS. Finally, the southernmost archetype (YTGM and X) shows so much variability within a supposedly rig framework of paddhati divisions that it is preferable to give it a separate chart rather than use the general chart with its alphabetical order;
3. 2. Uses of the chart. The chart enables MSS to be grouped together into smaller units, the smallest being the version, which means at least two MSS which contain the same ślokas in the same order, but for explicable variation. These fall naturally together into four archetypes, themsleves grouped into the two recensions N and S. Naturally, the MSS defining a version must be separted to an extent which suffices to preclude their being direct copies of each other. It might seem that a work in which the total number of stanzas is supposed to be 300 would hardly allow sufficient variation for such refined division, but as 'a matter of fact there certainly exist versions which have not as yet been determined from the 98 sources charted by me and which need the collection of still more MS evidence. The usefulness of the version classification is that readings generally fall into those classes also, while any well-established version can often be located geographically with some accuracy, not only by finds of the MSS but by their colophons, vernacularisms, and scribe's errors. Whenever a MS of a given version is copied in territory belonging to some other version, contamination usually occurs from the local text. The versions thus provide a most useful frame of reference in what would otherwise have been haphazard collections.
The total cvidence may be presented in a greatly simplified stemma codicum as follows: [ Ur-Bhartphari]
(Vedantic recension)
10th century?
Ur-Satakatraya
-o single defective codex.]
i
TG M
N=The Northern Recension
S - The Southern Recension [ by logical rearrangement]