Halas Sattasai

Author(s): Hermen Tieken
Publisher: Leiden

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in the individual MSS are not always specified. Occasionally a 'retention' had to be reconstructed. Where this is the case first this reconstructed form is given followed by the forms actually found, between brackets.
In most instances in the three lists given below the decision as to which is the innovation and which is the retention should be clear. Nevertheless, in a number of cases an explanation seems to be required, which, however, would not infrequently involve, for instance, complete word-studies or the consideration of parallel situations. It will be obvious that a discussion of such type can hardly be taken up in the context of the stemma as it rather belongs to the edition of the text. However, as the present edition contains only the first 50 Gātās no more than a relatively small number of instances could be discussed; in these instances a reference is given to the Gathās concerned. Some instances, though, are taken up later in the stemma itself, in which case a reference is given to the page in question. For the remainder I have had to restrict myself to comments on those cases which could be explained by relatively short remarks. For each list these comments, where available, are brought together in one note. Otherwise I have to refer the reader to the edition of the complete text which is planned to follow.
a. Innovations in the Jaina-recension (Bh and R) and the Vulgata (K, V, B, Y and P) against retentions in the Third South Indian recension (Ma, Ti and Tp).
Where the Vulgata MSS K, B and P, and Ma and Ti of the Third South-Indian recension, which consist only of fragments, and the Jaina MS Bh, which misses the seventh Sataka, are not available, this has not been expressly mentioned, but should become clear from their absence among the MSS enumerated. I have, on the other hand, included references to the 'eclectic' Telinga (T), Sadhāraṇadeva (S) and Second Telinga-recensions (w), where these are available. For the latter three recensions, see Chapter 5. It is to be noted that T mostly follows the Third South-Indian recension.
It should furthermore be noted that the Jaina-recension and the Vulgata differ occasionally in respect of the form the innovation in a