Canonical Niksepa

Author(s): Bansidhar Bhatt
Publisher: Bharatiya Vidya Prakashan

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(kati in $9). Sometimes we have supplied words not contained in the original text (mainly "catch-words", see the next section), putting them into square brackets. The "source" is normally mentioned in the Analysis following the Entry proper. - - - For the text of the Entry we have employed typographical devices according to a fairly rigid system. The devices are mainly connected with references (just mentioned), with the structure of the nikṣepa (see the next Section), or with the structure of the Entry text in its entirety. In the latter case we have employed sub-titles. See in particular $$34 and 45. Sūtra numbers forming part of the transmitted text have been included (e.g. 117 | in $9). - - - A section called "Parallels" appears after almost all the "Entries". But there we have merely referred to the relevant matter (verses, passages, etc.) - without mentioning the character of the parallel. The more important parallels have been considered in the so-called "Analysis", but for a close study of an individual "Entry" all the parallels supplied by us should be taken into account. (The word "parallel" is also used in a quite different sense: see Chapter 4g.) We have invariably quoted the Suttagame edition (misprints corrected), but the data preceding the "Entries" include a reference to a work edition (pothi or book format normally text and commentary see Section B of the Bibliography). Each page of the Suttagame edition has 30 lines. We have added in a number of cases a reference to the lines. The uniform size of the pages permits a fairly precise estimate of the size of the different canonical "works" (see p.141: Bhagavai pp. 384-939; Kappavaḍimsiyão pp.771-72). In the case of "Entries' taken from the Bhagavati we have mentioned invariably the relevant page(s) in DELEU's monograph. Whenever text portions were omitted in our edition, we have mentioned in parentheses the number of lines or pages in the Suttagame edition (see e.g. $10). The "Entry" in its narrowest sense is the text of a single nikṣepa, with or without matter from the immediate or distant context added to it (see the Introduction). The term "Entry" may, however, also be used for both text and treatment ("Parallels", "Analysis", etc.). The symbol is "S", preceding the figure of the Entry. In most cases it was advisable to add the number from the General Catalogue (Chapter 2). As we have put the $-symbol above the line, the reader will find the fuller reference and the shorter
reference as "No.1991 and respectively.
In contradistinction to the List of Entries (Ch.3), the General Catalogue (Ch.2) omits the "parallels" and combines "Samukha: davvao", "Samukha: davva-loga", "Samukha: irregular" in one single section. In Ch.2, doublets are enumerated separately, and nikṣepas without "execution" (programme only) have been included. As a consequence, many nikṣepas
have been mentioned twice (No.66$14 No.32), and some appear only as numbers (No.1). Conversely, the parallels listed in Chapter 3 as $$52-60 are not included in Chapter 2 which considers only nikṣepas.