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The text, as deduced from the best MSS. of the Samhitâ text, can be controlled by four independent checks. The first is, of course, a collation of the best MSS. of the Samhitâ text.
The second check to be applied to the Samhitâ text is a comparison with the Pada text, of which, again, I possessed at least one excellent MS., and several more modern copies.
The third check was a comparison of this text with Sâyana's commentary, or rather with the text which is presupposed by that commentary. In the few cases where the Pada text seemed to differ from the Samhitâ text, a note was added to that effect, in the various readings of my edition; and the same was done, at least in all important cases, where Sâyana clearly followed a text at variance with our own.
The fourth check was a comparison of any doubtful passage with the numerous passages quoted in the Prâtisâkhya.
These were the principles by which I was guided in the critical restoration of the text of the Rig-veda, and I believe I may say that the text as printed by me is more correct than any MS. now accessible, more trustworthy than the text followed by Sâyana, and in all important points identically the same with that text which the authors of the
nâtha's Tulâdânâdipaddhati (see Trübner's American and Oriental Literary Record, July 31, 1868) belong to the same class. They may be due either to the copyists of the MSS. which Pandit Târânâtha used while compiling his work, or they may by accident have crept into his own MS. Anyhow, not one of them is supported either by the best MSS. accessible in Europe, or by any passage in the Prâtisâkhya.
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RV. IX, 11, 2, read devayu IX, 11, 4, arkata IX. 14, 2, IX, 16, 3. IX, 17, 2, IX, 21, 2, IX, 48, 2,,, samvrikta
pravrinvanto
IX, 49, I,
nos påm IX, 54, 3, ,, suryah
IX, 59, 3.
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As printed by Pandit Târânâtha.
VEDIC HYMNS.
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yadi sabandhavah
anaptam suvânâsa
instead of devayuh b.
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arkate b yaddiptabandhavah.
anuptam b.
stuvânâsa b
pravrinvato b
samyukta b.
no yâm b
sûryam b. sidati b
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| SR No. | 007685 |
| Book Title | Grihya Sutras |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Hermann Oldenberg |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1886 |
| Total Pages | 2642 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 49 MB |