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Introduction
introduced in the commentary. The Hindi portion of the first edition has been retouched here and there.
The Text and the Linguistic Deductions - The present edition claims to give the text of Brahmadeva, but it should not be ignored that even the Mss. of the text of Brahmadeva show minor differences. With a view to study the text-tradition of P.-prakasa I have studied some ten Mss. hailing from different parts of India, six of which are collated and their variants are given at the end. Though I have followed the text of Brahmadeva in discussing the philosophy, mysticism, etc, of this work, the linguistic deductions set forth in the Introduction are based more on a close study of the various Mss. and their readings than on the text printed here.
b) On the text of P.-prakasa
Brahmadeva's Text-Brahmadeva divides P.-prakåsa into two Adhikāras. In this edition the verses in each Adhikara are separately numbered, though Mss. have continuous numbering. Apparently Brahmadeva's text contains 126 verses in the first and 219 in the second book including the interpolatory verses' of which he has two classes; one he class praksepaka2 (included in his numbering) and the other sthala-saṁkhya-bahya. prakşžpaka(i.e., out of place and not included in his numbering). The text shaped by Brahmadeva has remained intact, as it is borne out by his remarks on the text-analysis and the actual number in Ms. A, etc. His text can be shown thus in a tabular form: Book 1
Details.
Totai Text Regular :
I. 1-27, 33-123
118 Praksepaka :
J. 28-32
123 Sthala-samkhyā-bāhya-praksepaka. 1. 65*1, 123*2 & 123*3
126 Book II Text Regular :
II. 1-214
214 Sthala-samkhya-bāhya-praksepaka: II. 46*1, 111*2, 111*3, 111*4
& 137*5 5
219 All this means that the text of P-prakāśa, which reached Brahmadeva's hands, was much inflated. Five verses (1. 28-32) which he found to be of doubtful authenticity he accepted by calling them Praksepaka. But eight other 1 See his remarks at the close of the two Adhikäras. 2 See his introductory remarks on I. 28. 3 See his introductory remarks on 1. 65*1, etc. and II. 46*1 etc.
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