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
Classification: Article
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ås given to us by Mr. Pulinabehari Chakravartti. The style of the author of the Yuktidipika is old, and it requires some effort to establish a method of interpreting it, and to disentangle the prima facie view points and his own conclusions. In a study of this text stage by stage, the first stage, of course, is to see how far one can, by legitimate methods, improve the text itself.
A careful and intensive study of the text would enable one to eliminate the many errors in the lines;' there are places which, though apparently correct, have not yielded any meaning yet, and other places where I have not been able yet to remove the query mark left by the perplexed editor. I shall now offer a series of such corrections and emendations which I have so far effected in the text. In a further instalment, I might tackle the remaining difficult passages, and then go to the more interesting subjects of the thinkers and views cited and the light thrown by the Yuktidīpika on early Samkhya thought. It may be noted from many of the instances cited below that, owing to the style of the author, there has been large scale misunderstanding about a thing being affirmed or denied and consequently about the presence or absence of the negative particle; and strangely sometimes, a superflous 'Na' is added, not realising that it neutralises the negative statement that follows.
1. From the Preface to the Editor's Origin and Development of the Samkhya System of Thought, it is to be gathered that a revised edition of the text of the Yuktidipika with corrections is under preparation and that some corrections have already been incorporated in the passages cited in the Origin and Development.
2. The Editor's Origin and Development includes a treatment of this subject.