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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path of devotion ultimately leads to salvation.
Skandha XII, too, is edited by Dr. K. K. Shastree. Here he has utilised 27 select MSS copied in the few different scripts mentioned in the introduction to the preceding skandha. Then follow tables of insertions and omissions.
In the critical study of this skandha, the learned Editor has given detailed tables of the successive dynasties of the Kali Age, comparing the account given in Bhāgavata Purana with that given in Viṣṇu Purana. While expounding the evils of the Kali Age, the editor has elaborately discussed the chronolgical and astronomical data given in Matāya, Vayu, Brahma, Viṣņu and Bhagavata Purāṇa.
Skandha XII consists of 13 adhyāyas. The topics enumerated in Adhy. 12 are useful for verifying the genuineness of the topics narrated in the previous adhyāyas. As regards the traditional numbers of verses given in the last adhyaya with respect to the 18 Purāņas, the Editor aptly observes that the numbers given here indicate granthagras rather than slokas.
Part II of Vol. IV comprising the two last skandhas was published in 1998. Its price is Rs. 400.
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Now remains the Epilogue, surveying the various salient features of the Bhagavata Purāṇa given in the critical edition. It is undertaken by Dr. K. K. Shastree, who is expounding its various topics since long. We hope that the Epilogue will be published in the next year.
The total amount of the price of the individual volumes comes to be Rs. 3,500, but the institute has offered to sell them at the reduced price of Rs. 2500, if one orders for the entire set of four volumes at a time.
The critical edition of the Bhagavata Purāņa is prepared by learned Editors on the basis of several select available MSS copied in all the different regional scripts after a long process of the acquisition of different MSS, recording the readings given in the select MSS and a collation of the variant readings followed by the selection of the most appropriate readings. We hope the libraries of all the universities and other aeademic institutions in India and abroad interested in critical editions of the Great Epics and the Puranas will welcome the preparation and publication of the Bhāgavata Purāņa critically edited for the first time by placing orders for its complete set.
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