Samipya 2000 Vol 17 Ank 03 04

SR No.: 535817
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Bhartiben Shelat, R T Savalia
Publisher: Bholabhai Jeshingbhai Adhyayan Sanshodhan Vidyabhavan
Publication Year: 2000
Total Pages: 84
Language: Gujarati
Classification: Magazine, India_Samipya, & India
File Size: 8 MB

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from Varanasi along with MSS or their copies from other places in North, Central and South India. MSS were also procured from Nepal. When Dr. Ganorkar left the institute in 1995, the charge of supplying necessary data for the critical apparatus was assigned to Smt. Nayana Adhvaryu.
It was planned to publish the critical edition in four volumes comprising three skandhas each.
The Editors have generally adopted and followed the principles laid down for the critical editions of the Great Epics. Generally the stanzas found common in almost all MSS consulted are adopted for the constituted text, while stanzas contained only in some MS or MSS are relegated as interpolated and recorded in the critical apparatus. The variant readings of letters or words or padas are noted in the critical apparatus given below the constituted text in the respective pages, with specific reference to the MSS and commentaries containing them. When some variant is found in a printed edition but does not occur in any MSS or commentaries consulted, it is inserted in the critical apparatus with reference to the particular printed edition. Special emphasis is laid on the readings in the oldest MS consulted, but they are not adopted necessarily in all cases. Generally the readings that seem to be most appropriate in the context from various viewpoints are adopted for the constituted text. The letters or words of the variant readings which are found to be less than certain are underlined with wavy lines. The interpolated lines are given in the critical apparatus with separate serial numbers in each skandha. Obscure words or concepts are expounded in critical notes at the end of the volume along with some observations of comparative references.
The editor of each volume has also contributed a scholarly introduction, giving a short list and a detailed account of the MSS scriptwise, which is followed by the testimonia classified into commentaries, printed editions, epitomes, renderings and translations. This is followed by a general survey of the MSS and the insertions and omissions in the different versions. The editor then dwells upon the subjectmatter of the skandhas concerned, with observations on their salient features including contents, metres, figures of speech, grammatical peculiarities etc. The introduction is followed by a table of concordance of the critical edition with select printed editions. The introduction is preceded by a few illustrations adopted from old MSS, and a few facsimiles of folios of MSS in different scripts.
Vol. I of the critical edition, comprising Skandhas I-III, is edited by Dr. H. G. Shastri. He has constituted the text by selecting appropriate readings from select MSS copied in Sāradā, Newäri, Maithili, Bengāli, Devanāgari, Nandināgari.
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