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Typographical Devices etc. Explained
Vertical straight black-faced lines. These lines, in the right-hand margin, have been employed in cases where, on account of a lacuna in the manuscript a, it was necessary to put the reading of ẞ into the text. The beginning or end of such a B-passage is indicated by an asterisk in case it does not coincide exactly with the beginning or end of a line. Thus on page 99, all of lines 1 to 5 is taken from 8; while in lines 19 to 20 only the words uktam to iti are taken from B. So eranda- (1017) to bhidyainclusive (115). As page 99 shows, the use of straight line and wavy line together makes no confusion. A series of asterisks indicates a lacuna. Thus at 6113 the missing speech of the crow is indicated by eight stars.
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Device for citing whole paragraphs of the frame-stories. In the editio major, Dr. Hertel has divided the frame-stories into paragraphs or Abschnitte (each paragraph being a unit as to substance or contents) and has marked them with letters and figures in the left-hand margin. These markings run in one sequence 1 from A1 to A308. Here A stands for Abschnitt. Those paragraph-divisions and numberings are repeated in this editio minor. Their usefulness is seen in Hertel's Synoptic Table in the Einleitung to his Übersetzung, pages 100 to 126. And Schulthess has adopted them in his translation of the Old Syriac version.
Citation of tales and stanzas. Whole tales are cited by Roman numerals, a capital for the book or tantra and a lower-case numeral for the tale. Stanzas (or "strophes ") are cited by an Arabic numeral. Thus I. viii means book I, tale viii, Blue jackal; while I. 8 means book I, stanza 8 (page 61-4). But A8 means paragraph or Abschnitt 8 of the frame-story (page 48-25). This method of citation is followed by Dr. Hertel in his translation of this text and elsewhere.
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1 The passages of frame-story interpolated into ẞ, and given in Appendix IV, pages 142 and 143, are marked by the bracketed numbering [A296] to [A302]. And certain ẞ-passages given in Appendix II, page 138, which follow page 107, line 10, of this text, are marked A225ba and A225bb.
