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2. Change of script 3. Assimilation of the coinmentary with the text.
4. Intervention of time and place.
When Silānkarsūri wrote his Vșitti on the "Sūtrakrita', he had its specimens and ancient commentary (Tika) both. In one place of the second Addhyayna of the second Srutāskandha, the reading was not similar to that of the specimens, and the reading, that was commented on, was not found consistant with that of any specimen. He, therefore, commented on the said passage honouring only one specimen.
We have adopted the readings of the Cūrni in some places. In comparision to that of the specimens and the VỊitti they appear more relevant.
In 2/6/45 the reading is ‘niho nisam'. It has been commented on in the Vțitti as 'ņiwo nisam'. We have adopted the reading of the Cūrni there?
. We have discussed the changes in the text and their causes under the footnotes. It was keenly endeavourcd in the Vedic tradition also to maintain the originality of the text of the Vedas. But in their texts, too, there have been timely violations. Dr. Vißwabandhu writes__-"It is a fact accepted by all that great pains, which kuow no parallel in the world history of literature, were taken in this country to maintain the texts of the Vedic literature in their original and correct form by learning them by heart with great care and utmost reverence during the past five thousand ycars. Nevertheless, as the scholars, preceding to us, inicidently found here and there as we have largely seen during our incessant research work for the past forty years, these works, too, could not be saved from the effects of time bound damages and insufficient human hurlings. Had it becn mostly the other way, truly, it would be an incredible miracle."
Continuing with the tradition of cramming and passing from one to the other age of script-change in the prolonged period. Some places of every work have deviated from their originality
1. Suttrakritavritti, page 79:
That ca pravah sutradarsesu nanabbidhani Suttrabi drisyante, na ca tika sambadhckapyasmabhiradarsah samuphabdhot e kamadarsamangikrityasmabhi
viwaranam kriyate. 2. See, Footnote on 2/6/45. 3. Akhilabharatiya praciya vidya Sammelan, Twentifourth gathering, Varanasi
1968, Mukhyadyaksiya speech, page, 8-9.
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