Rugartha Dipika

SR No.: 020610
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Lakshman Sarup
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass
Publication Year: 1939
Total Pages: 862
Language: Sanskrit
Classification: Book_Devnagari
File Size: 18 MB

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( 50 ) Ist Astaka
Total No. of Süktas Ist er = Sūktas 1-19 contains Vargas 37 and
20-32
33-46 4th
47-61 5th
62-80
81-94 7th
95-112 8th
» 113-121
3rd
»
=
6th
CHARACTER OF FOOTNOTES Footnotes are of two kinds: (1) critical and (2) comparative. Critical notes are based on a collation of mss., and record even their minutest differences. With their help, the text of the commentary in toto can be reconstructed as transmitted by each individual ms. Therefrom a reader can get an impression of the true state of the text as represented by each ms., without actually taking the trouble of examining the ms. itself.
Comparative notes are derived from a utilization of the commentaries of Sāyaṇācārya, Skandasvāmin, Yāska, and Brābmanās etc. The commentaries of Sāyaṇācārya and Skandasvāmin constitute an extensive and elaborate explanation. Their exegesis is often identical with that of Verkața Mādhava. The addition of an identical explanation, even in different phraseology, would not have served any useful purpose. It would not have extended the bounds of our intellectual horizon of the knowledge of the RV. Such identical explanation is, therefore, excluded from footnotes. But all cases, in which either Sy. or Sk. or both differ from VM, or give additional meaning, are registered therein, together with the different or the additional meaning, as the case may be. In this manner, all the different interpretations of a Rgvedic word, available from Indian sources, are brought together in one place. The late Professor A. A. Macdonnell, with whom I had the honour to work at Oxford, used to say that the acid test of a scholarly work was that its treatment of any particular subject should save the time and labour of those who may have to study that particular subject afterwards. The