Patrika Index of Mahabharata

Author(s): Parshuram Lakshman Vaidya
Publisher: Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute

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VIII POINTS TO BE NOTED of the line ). As for the passage occurring in the Critical Apparatus of an Appendix-passage, the number of the line in the Appendix-passage, to which that passage relates by way of insertion or substitution, is given after the number of the Appendix-passage. This is followed by the number of the line and the symbol pr. or post.* Other points to be noted in comection with the Appendix-passages are : The letter A following the number of a line in an Appendix-passage represents the first passage given in the Critical Apparatus relating to that line; the letter B represents the sccond passage given in the Critical Apparatus relating to the line after which that letter occurs; the letter L following the number of a line indicates that that line occurs in the longer version of the Appendixpassage; and the letter s following the number of the Appendix-passage indicates the shorter version of that Appendix-passage. (7) Thus : HHyan fiant 6. 75. 21; 180* 1 post.; App. 4. 251 post. means that the verse-quarter fra tan occurs three times in the Critical Edition of the Mahabharata, namely, (i) as the second pada of verse 21 in adhyaya 75 of the Bhismaparvan, (ii) as the posterior half of line 1 in the star-passage 180 of the same Parvan, and (iii) as the posterior half of line 251 in passage 4 in Appendix I also of the same Parvan. STATEN = EY 13. App. 14. 221 (sulist.) 52 pr. means that the verso quarter af EI TEN occurs as the prior half of line 52 in the passage given as subst. passage in the Critical Apparatus relating to line 221 in passage 14 in Appendix I of the Anucasannparvan. . . TATATERET 7. App. 8.706A 2 post. means that the verse-quarter a H E occurs as the posterior half of line 2 in the passage given as the first passage in the Critical Apparatus relating to line 706 in passage 8 in Appendix I of the Dronaparvan. pizzamaury 13. App. 14. 221B 16 post. means that the verse-quarter ziceague occurs as the posterior half of line 16 in the passage given as the second passage in the Critical Apparatus relating to line 221 in passage 14 in Appendix I of the Anusasanaparvan. arar FA 6. App. 3. 83 L post. means that the verse-quarter past atat a qua occurs as the posterior half of line 83 of the longer version of passage 3 in Appendix 1 of the Bhismaparvan. a ata faarfare 6. App. 3 S 44o. means that the verse quarter det ata faraitza occurs as the third pada of stanza 44 of the shorter version of passage 3 in Appendix I of the Bhixmaparvan. * It may be noted that in App. 21 of the Araralajurran, stanza numbers are given instead of line-numbers, and that, though in the two versions of App. 3 of the Blismparean both stanza-numbers and line-nainbers are given, the references in the Ivdex relate to stay in the shorter version and to lines in the longer version,