Satapitaka

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commentary on the commentary, the sub-commentary will be printed in smaller letters. The notes will be given in types which are smaller than the mentioned parts of the text. In each category quotations from other works or from the same work will be denoted by the use of types of a different face or by the use of inverted commas or similar signs. When there are very many commentaries to a work, it will be more appropriate to print the main text once, twice or oftener in separate volumes together with a group of commentaries, as be feasible. Every edition will contain an introduction and appendixes. What has to be given in the introduction depends naturally on the nature of the text itself. But in general the text will be considered and examined from the standpoint of grammar, lexicography, prosody, style, history, geography, etc., and the quotations will be discussed and identified. Special attention will be paid to the author, his life and his literary activity, to the place of the work in the entire cognate literature and to the development of the subject in question with regard to previous works as well as to the world point of view. The introduction will further deal with the commentaries and their authors and will give the description and criticism of the used manuscripts, of their script and provenance. Previous editions will be discussed and a bibliography will be given. In the appendixes one will find a series of indices, consisting of subject index, a list of quotations, authors quoted, proper names, important words, new words and subhasitas. In some cases the appendixes may be preceded by excursuses, in which certain matters, which are too extensive for being presented in the exegetical notes under the text, will be discussed. Lastly tables, charts and maps wherever needed. The edition of the text will be accompanied or followed by a translation or a review in Hindi and in any other language too, if desirable. The edition will further be complemented by adding facsimiles of unique manuscripts and other illustrations. In the same way all inscriptions will be followed by facsimiles of the documents on stone, copper and so on. As concerns the Central Asia Pitaka, all the fragments and texts will be published in facsimiles along with critical edition. Paintings, whether by themselves or when found in manuscripts, will be reproduced by chromophotography. The Satapitaka is to be divided firstly into two main sections,