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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
www.kobatirth.org
Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute Poona are also publishing the Mahabharata--(for the first time critically edited by Dr. V. S. Suktankar) with the co-operation of an Editorial Board of famong scholars. The aim of this Edition is to restore the Mahâbbărata to Vyāsa's own Text. The principle adopted is to reject all that is contained in the Northern Recension but omitted in the Southern as well as to omit the additions found in the Southern but not supported in the Northern recension. A comparison of the Southern Recension of the Text now being edited at Madras and the Poona critical edition would seem to establish the Southern Recension to be the more ancient and more genuine text of the Mahabharata 2.
Two other Recensions of the Mahabharata deserve notice-the Kasmiri Recension and the Bengali Recepsion, Critical Editions of
these Recensions will, when made available, indicate the real history of the Mabåbhårata tradition and the processes through which it underwent so many changes in its ovolution.
The Northern Recension has got fixed through the commen: tary of Nilakangha (C. 1800 A. D.) The earliest commentary that seems to favour definitely the Southern Recension is that of Vädirāja (O. 1300 A D.) the author of the Lakylaikära falso called Lakşabbarana).
and sons, 292 Esplanade, Madras—Vols. I & II Adi Parvan, Vol. III-Sabha Parvan & Vol. VI -Viriba Parvan have alroady been published. 1. Five Fascioules of this edition, coverisg about half the
Adiparvan have so far been published. 2. For a detailed discussion on this topic, gon the introduo
tions prefixed to the several volumes of the Southern Recension,
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