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Contents of Prefatory and Related Matter
| The biographical and related matter | xxxvi |
| General significance of Whitney's work | xxxvii |
| Need of a systematic commentary on the Rig-Veda | xxxvii |
| The Century Dictionary of the English Language | xxxviii |
| Acknowledgments | xxxviii |
| Human personality and the progress of science | xl |
| The same in English verse and in Sanskrit verse | xli–xlii |
| Biographical and related matter | xliii–lxi |
| Brief sketch of Whitney's life: by the editor | xliii |
| Estimate of Whitney's character and services: by the editor | xlvii |
| Select list of Whitney's writings: by Whitney | lvi |
| General Introduction, Part I.: by the editor | lxiii—cvii |
| General Premises | lxiii–lxiv |
| Scope of this Part of the Introduction | lxiii |
| Scope of the reports of the variant readings | lxiii |
| The term "manuscripts" often used loosely for "authorities" | lxiv |
| Which authorities are both manuscripts and oral reciters | lxiv |
| Difficulty of verifying statements as to authorities | lxiv |
| 1. Readings of European manuscripts of the Vulgate recension | lxiv–lxv |
| Reports include mss. collated, some before, and some after publication | lxiv |
| Interpretation of the records of the Collation-Book | lxv |
| 2. Readings of Indian manuscripts of the Vulgate | lxvi |
| By "Indian mss." are meant those used by S. P. Pandit | lxvi |
| His reports not exhaustive | lxvi |
| 3. Readings of Indian oral reciters of the Vulgate | lxvi–lxvii |
| By "Indian oral reciters" are meant those employed by S. P. Pandit | lxvi |
| Errors of the eye checked by oral reciters | lxvi |
| 4. Readings of the Hindu commentator | lxvii–lxviii |
| The critical value and the range of his variant readings | lxvii |
| Excursus: Was he identical with Sāyaṇa of the Rig-Veda? | lxviii |
| 5. Readings of the Pada-pāṭha | lxix–lxx |
| Reported in Index Verborum, and since published in full | lxix |
| Illustrations of its deficiencies | lxix |
| In verb-compounds and various other combinations | lxix–lxx |
| 6. The Prātiçākhya and its commentary | lxx–lxxi |
| Character of Whitney's editions of the Prātiçākhyas | lxx |
| Their bearing upon the orthography and criticism of the text | lxx |
| Utilization of the Atharvan Prātiçākhya for the present work | lxxi |
| 7. The Anukramaṇīs: "Old" and "Major" | lxxi–lxxiv |
| More than one Anukramaṇī extant | lxxi |
| The Pañcapaṭalikā or "Old Anukr." or "Quoted Anukr." | lxxi |
| Manuscripts thereof | lxxii |
| The Bṛhatsarvānukramaṇī or "Major Anukr." | lxxii |
| Manuscripts thereof | lxxii |
| Text-critical value of the Anukramaṇīs | lxxiii |
| The author of the Major Anukr. as a critic of meters | lxxiii |
| His statements as to the seers of the hymns (quasi-authorship) | lxxiv |
