Bhagwad Gita Vivechanatmak Shabdakosh

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

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Introduction
too complicate and there may be students who may not be interested in the Kasmir variants at all, for the additional stanzas and lines do not after all add anything to our knowledge of any of the branches of the subject dealt with in the Gita and a reference to the critical notes in entries Nos. 2, 8, 9, 21, 23, 42, 69, 152, 156, 169, 210, 267, 367, 373, 386, 387 etc. in Pt. I B will show that several of the variant readings are of doubtful value.
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In order to arrive at the most probable text as per that recension I have collated the four editions thereof above-mentioned, namely those of (1) Otto Schrader (1930); (2) S. N. Tadpatrikar (1934); (3) Jivaram Sastri (1937) and (4) T. R. Chintamani (1941) and have in Appendix II to Part I.named Critical Apparatus of Section B, given a comparative table of the variations occurring in all of them and made mention in the foot-notes thereunder of the alternative or peculiar readings found in some of them only, indicating their sources by the initial letters of the names of the editors or commentators in whose editions or commentaries they are found. While ascertaining the variants common to all the said editions I have not restricted myself to the readings adopted therein but have also made use of those given by the editors in their foot-notes. The names of the commentators of the Vulgate who were found to have adopted any of these variants, from some other sources of course, have also been mentioned in the Remarkscolumn of that Appendix.
The words underlined in Col. 4 of that Appendix are the only ones brought over to the Index in Section B for being arranged in an alphabetical order and treated exactly like those in Section A. Accordingly all the words occurring in the additional stanzas and half-stanzas and only such of those in the common ones as replace the corresponding portions in the Vulgate find place therein. The foot-notes under each Adhyaya therein bear a separate series of consecutive numbers. The introductory prose-remarks occurring in this recension have, as in the case of the Vulgate, been ignored while preparing the index in Section B.
III. Secondary, Tertiary and Quaternary Word-Units.
Part II of this Index contains alphabetical lists of what I have called Secondary, Tertiary and Quaternary Word-Units and a Comparative Table of the word-units common to all or any two of the said three kinds of word-units.
The Secondary Word-Units are those which were obtained on dissolving the compound ones from amongst the Primary Word-Units indexed in Part I and on separating the component parts thereof. The method of dissolution adopted in the case of each such unit is set forth