Bhagwad Gita Vivechanatmak Shabdakosh

Author(s): Prahlad C Divanji
Publisher: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt Ltd

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Critical Word-Index to the Bhagavadgita
This Part contains another section, Section B, comprising an Index
Re of the variants occurring in the Kāśmir Recension cension with Com- of the Bhagavadgitā. The Vulgate, which is commentaries and its Pro- men
mented upon by Sankara and others, contains bable Genesis.
700 stanzas as expressly mentioned by Sankara in the introductory part of his Bhāsya.' Out of them 574 have been placed in the mouth of Sri Krşna, 83 in that of Arjuna, 42 in that of Sañjaya and 1 in that of Dhrtarāstra. These stanzas are distributed in the different chapters in the following inanner, namely :--Sri Bhagavän-2. 2-3, 11-72 ; 3. 3-35, 37-43; 4. 1-3, 5-42; 5. 2-29; 6. 1-32, 35-36, 40-47; 7. 1-30 ; 8. 3-28; 9. 1-34 ; 10. 1-11, 19-42; 11. 5-8, 32-34, 47-49, 52-55; 12. 2-20; 13. 2-34 ; 14. 1-20, 22-27; 15. 1-20 ; 16. 1-24; 17. 2-28; 18. 2-72, i.e. to say, 64 + 40 + 41 + 28 +42 + 30+ 26 + 34 + 35 + 14 + 19 + 33 + 26 +20 + 24 + 27 + 71 = 574. - Arjuna1. 201-23, 27}-46; 2. 4-8; 3. 1-2, 36; 4. 4; 5. 1; 6. 33-34, 37-39 ; 8. 1-2; 10. 12-18; 11. 1-4, 15-31, 36-46 ; 12. 1; 13. 1 ; 14. 21 ; 17.1 ; 18. 1, 73, i. e. 21 + 5 + 3 + 1 +1 +5+ 2 + 7 + 32 + 1 +1 +1 +1 +2
= 83.- Sanjaya-1.2-201, 24-27, 47 ; 2.1, 9-10; 11.9-14, 35, 50-51 ; 18. 74-73, i. e. 25 + 3 + 9 + 5 = 42.-Dhrtarăstra-1.1.
In A, D. 1917 one Hamsayogin of Madras published through the Suddha Dharma Mahamandala there for the first time a different version thereof in which the number of stanzas had been brought up to 745 in supposed conformity with a stanza ( 43.7), in the Bhismaparvan of the Mahabharata as edited in Bombay, and in some MSS. thereof procured from Northern India, to the effect that there were in the Gità 745 stanzas made up as follows :-620 coming from the mouth of Keśava (instead of 574 ), 57 from that of Arjuna (instead of 83), 67 from that of Sanjaya (instead of 42) and 1 from that of Dhrtarăstra. That version consisted of the work as divided into 26 (instead of 18 chapters), in 24 of which there were uniformly 24 stanzas coming from the mouth of Sri Krsna and 39 of the stanzas in the Vulgate had been omitted and 84 new ones selected from the Udyoga, Anušāsana and Santi Parvans besides the Bhişma, had been incorporated under the supposition that the text of the Bhagavad gitā as it originally existed could not have contained the former and must have contained the latter. This hypothesis was not supported by any MS. evidence
1. J. H. P. edition p. 4. That edition actually contains 699 stanzas only. This is found on comparison thereof with the N. S. P. and G. P. editions to be due to a differ ence in the make-up of the stanzas 1.26, 36 and 2.24, each of them having 3 instead of the usual 2 lines in an Anustubh as in the other editions and that of the stanza 2.25, which has one line only. The total number of lines in all the editions is thus the same. If this difference is ignored the number 700 of the stanzas in the Vulgate is found to have been made up thus:- 47 + 72 +43 +42 +29 + 47 +30 + 28 +34 + 42 +55 +20 + 34 + 27 +20 + 24 + 28 + 78=700.