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Published by 'Bhau Babaji Latthe, Kurundwad'. Although this edition contains the same 150 original verses that are found in this accurate copy presented before the readers, the preface does mention that some of these verses are 'unconnected'. It also states that a Kannada script copy, which he received from Rao Devappa Upadhyay, has 50 more verses, out of which, excluding those verses that clearly appear to be 'interpolations', the remaining 7 verses have been given as an appendix. This information reveals two things - firstly, that there is a copy of this text in Kannada script which contains 200 verses; secondly, that Latthe Sahib also suspects some of these one hundred and fifty verses to be interpolations, which he calls unconnected. Although you have not provided any list of such verses, nor have you presented any specific thoughts regarding interpolations, rather you have left that kind of thought 'unpresented' there - yet, for example, you have pointed to the 27th verse and called it unconnected. That verse is as follows:
If there is no benefit from the cessation of sin, then what is the benefit of wealth?
Or if there is a flow of sin, then what is the benefit of wealth?
This verse may seem somewhat unconnected at a superficial level, but when its deeper meaning is considered in depth and its chain is linked with the meaning of the preceding verses, it does not remain unconnected. In the 25th verse before this, the eight-fold nature of pride is explained, and in the 26th verse, the fault of indulging in that pride is shown, and it is stated that one should not despise those who are righteous, those who are endowed with right vision, etc., by becoming proud of one's family, caste, or wealth, etc. After this, the disputed verse teaches that those who are endowed with wealth, family, etc., should try to overcome their pride in those respective objects, and how and in what way they should do so. It has also been found that the translation work of this edition was also done by the Professor Sahib.
X As - "Even in the 150 verses given as the original text, some appear to be unconnected. For example, see the 27th verse. But this thought is irrelevant here."