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in restoring the flow of the narration They were all, as found, inserted at later dates when both of them were established as supreme godheads during the Puranic penod When he found that some verses of First Adhyāya of the Bhagavadgitā are found repeated in the 47th Adhyāya of the Bhīsma-parvan with slight changes, where they were more suitable, he felt that the proper place for the BG was between the 42nd and the 43rd Adhyayas, and that the BG of 18 Adhyāyas could not be included not only in the Bhārata, but perhaps in the Mahābhārata, too It might have been, according to his opinion, a purely independent metrical Upanisadic composition of repute a creation perhaps of some ancient date, comprising about a hundred verses only, and coming in existence during the composition the formulation of the Bhārata, not earlier than perhaps between the 15th century BC and the 6th century BC And, the BG of the 700 hundred verses got inserted in the old text of the Mahābhārata well before the time when as yet the Northern and the Southern recessions had not been separated as such
As regards the Jaya Samhită of 8,800 verses, it was not unknown, as is clear from the verse specifically mentioning the number of verses that both Vyāsa and Suka knew but perhaps Sanjaya did not Professor Shastree located them and published them as the Ur-Bharata, that is supposed to be composed as early as the time of the King Janamejaya, and later on Vaišampāyana prepared a revised and enlarged version in the form of the Bharata, adding the prolonged dialogues between Sanjaya and the king Dhrtarăstra, and expanding it to the extent of about 24,000 verses Thus, Professor Shastree richly deserves the congratulations from the comity of scholars and lovers of Indian culture for the incessant painstaking labors that he has undergone for years together in locating both the Jaya-samhitā as well as the Bhārata that were lying dormantly hidden in the vast encyclopedic Mahābhārata, that was critically edited by the late Dr V S Sukhthankar and his most worthy followers and published from the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Pune NMK. ŚRIMAD-BHAGAVATA-MAHĀPURĀNAM (SATVATA-SAMHITĀ) in Sanskrit, edited by Navnitpriya Jyeshtharam Shastri, Vidyanidhi Trust, Nadiad, V Sam 2054, PP, 22+ 728, non-priced The Bhagavata Purana has been presented afresh in the form of this edition by Shri Navanıtpriya Shastri of Nadiad, who is one of the famous popular
