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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, hail. ing 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.-prakāśa
Brahmadeva's Text-Brahmadeva divides Pi-prakasa 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 versest of which he has two classes; one he class prakşöpaka? (included in his numbering) and the other sthala-sankhya-bahyapraksapaka (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.
Total Text Regular :
I. 1-27, 33-123
118 Praksepaka :
1. 28-32
123 Sthala-sarkhyā-bāhya-praksepaka : 1,65*1. 123*2 & 123*3
126 Book II Text Regular :
II. 1-214
214 Sthala-samkhya-bahya-praksepaka : II. 46*1, 111*2, 111*3, 111*4
& 137*5 5
219 All this means that the text of P-prakasa, 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 Adhikaras, 2 See his introductory remarks on I. 28. 3 See his introductory remarks on I. 651, etc. and II. 46*1, etc.
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