Yuktidipika On Samkhya Karika Corrections And Emendations in text 01

SR No.: 269389
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: V Raghavan
Publisher: V Raghavan
Total Pages: 14
Language: English
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writers and their works. In all these respects the Yuktidīpika is a work requiring a detailed study and exposition.
I have recently had occasion to teach the text line by line and my examination showed that the first important thing to be done in respect of this text is to purify it of its numerous corruptions. As the editor has said, his edition is based on the single Poona manuscript, which is corrupt and defective, there being several gaps also. In his Preface, the editor states that there is another manuscript of the work in the Research Department of Kashmir but that he could not consult it as at that time the Research Department of Kashmir had begun to print it in their Series. I pursued this matter and examined all the manuscripts of the Kashmir Research Department which were brought to the National Archives in New Delhi. I succeeded in laying my hands on the manuscript materials with which the Kashmir Department had started their edition; there was also a galley proof of a portion in the beginning of the text. But on scrutiny it turned out that the basis of the Kashmir Department's endeavour to bring the Yuktidipikā to light was not an independent manuscript but only a transcript from the same B.O.R.I. original on which the Calcutta publication is based. In the numerous catalogues and lists of manuscripts in my possession for the New Catalogus Catalogorum work, I have not so far found any manuscript of the Yuktidīpikā; nor have I found a manuscript of it in the 20,000 manuscripts in European libraries which I surveyed recently.
In the absence of fresh manuscript help, we have to apply ourselves more intensely to the present text