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Introductory Notes
on it.
A. Purānas:
| in the earlier parts of Dharmakos'a, but It was not possible to include in the
in the third part this has been done in Dharmakos'a extracts from the eighteen
view of the difficulty of the Arthas'astra
and the need one feels of the commentary Purăņas bearing on Vyavahara. It will involve a good deal of expense and intellectual drudgéry to go through all
(5) The Anandas'rama edition of the the Puranas and to index them. The Baudhāyana-dharma-sūtra is referred to work has' accordingly been postponed as (*) and the one edited by MM. for a time, but in order to avoid an Cinnaswamis'āstri as (). important lacuna in the Dhdrmakos'a
(6) References to the texts and variall the Purāņa passages cited by the
ants from the Vis'ņusmrti were to the authors of Niband has have been in
Calcutta edition of Jivananda in part I cluded here.
and II. In this part the editions of both B. Bibliographical Notes:
Jivānand and Jolly have been utilised (1) The three editions of the Maha- and the references are to Jolly's edition. bhārata that have been used are: (a) The Jolly's edition is styled as (*) and Jiva. Bombay edition, cited as 9. (B); (b) the nanda's as (a). Kumbhakoņum edition, cited as HT.(F77.)
(7) No references were made in part I and (c) the Bhāndārkar Institute edition,
and II to the variants noted by MM. Dr. cited as 46. (71061.)
Ganganath Jhā in his notes on the Manu(2) Works on Jain law such as the smt; the present Bhadrabāhusa mhita, the Vardha- (8) The Nirnayasagar edition of the mānanīti and the Arhannīti are in the | Yajňavalkya-smrti is styled as (*) and main adoptions of the Smrtis of Manu, that by Ghārpure as (2). Yājñavalkya etc. and therefore have not
(9) A copy of the Vyavaharanirnaya been cited independently.
of Varadaraja in grantha characters was (3) The Nepāl Recension of the procured and transliterated into Devanagari; Naradasmrti has been omitted and but the copyist not having given referenthe stanzas peculiar to it have been ces to the pagination of the original included in this part.
manuscript, no such references could be (4) Extracts from the S'rimulă com- given in the first and second Part. mentary on the Arthas'āstra by the late (10) In the Parts I and II references MM. Gaņa patis'āstri, being a late and to variants of the Vyavara hänirnaya voluminous work, were not included and the references to texts and variants of