Zend Avesta Part 03

SR No.: 007673
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: L H Mills
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1887
Total Pages: 2618
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 49 MB

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PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.
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shma short in accordance with the Prátisakhya, Satra 514, where a string of words is given before which sma must not be lengthened, and where under No. ji we find yásmai. Professor Aufrecht has altered this, and gives the à as long, which is wrong. The MSS. S1, S2, S 3 have the short a.
Another word before which sma ought not to be lengthened is mávate. Hence, according to Sutra 514, 14, I ought not to have printed in VI, 65, 4, shmå mávate, but shma mávate. Here Professor Aufrecht has retained the long å, which is wrong. MSS. S1, S2, S 3 have the short a.
It follows from Satra 499 that in I, 138, 4, we should not lengthen the vowel of sú. Hence, instead of asya a shu na úpa såtaye, as printed in my edition and repeated by Professor Aufrecht, we should read asya a shú na úpa sátáye. S1, S2, S3 have short u.
In VII, 31, 4, I had by mistake printed viddhi instead of viddhi. The same reading is adopted by Professor Aufrecht (II, p. 24), but the authority of the Prátisakhya, Sutra 445, can hardly be overruled. S1, S2, S 3 have viddhi.
While in cases like these, the Prátisakhya is an authority which, as far as I can judge, ought to overrule the authority of every MS., however ancient, we must in other cases depend either on the testimony of the best MSS. or be guided, in fixing on the right reading, by Sayana and the rules of grammar. I shall therefore, in cases where I cannot consider Professor Aufrecht's readings as authoritative improvements, have to give my reasons why I adhere to the readings which I had originally adopted.
In V, 9, 4, I had printed by mistake purú yó instead of purű yó. I had, however, corrected this misprint in my edition of the Prátisåkhya, 393, 532. Professor Aufrecht decides in favour of purú with a short u, but against the authority of the MSS., S1, S2, S3, which have pura.
• In the same verse, I, 138, 4, the shu in ó shú två should not be lengthened, for there is no rule, as far as I can see, in the Prátisakhya that would require the lengthening of sú before två. Sce Prâtisâkhya, 491.
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