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The Present Edition : Restorations aad Emendations
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Numerous syllables, many words and several clauses, sentences and even passages could not be properly deciphered due to the erazed, broken or overlapped condition of the MS-leaf or at places where the MS-photo was illegible, indistinct or blurred with ink. All such portions have been reconstructed or construed on the basis of the preceding description and the text has been improvised in the light of the same. These improvements and reconstructions have been noted within square brackets. The massing text of the Gotra, Avātara and the Naişkramyabhūmis along with the discussion on the Kalyānamitratā has been reconstructed on the basis of the Tibetan version of the text edited by Prof. D. T. Suzuki in the Tibetan Tripitaka Vol. 110 (Tokyo, Kyoto, 1957). This reconstructed text has been appended to the body of the edited text (Appendix I). The avagraha(s) sign is seldom met with in the MS. and at relevant places, this sign has also been inserted in square brackets.
