Parab’s edition. Another reprint of Hall’s text, prepared under the supervision of Kāshīnāth Pāṇḍurang Parab, was published by the Nirṇaya Sāgara Press at Bombay in 1897. Here again there is no acknowledgment of indebtedness to Hall’s text, which is referred to in the footnotes merely as ‘pāṭha.’ For no apparent reason, this edition does not follow Hall’s numbering of the verses, but adopts a system of its own, which departs from the other sufficiently to cause some difficulty in finding passages referred to by the numbers of the older edition.
This edition is in many respects the most practical of the three. The text embodies all the readings that Hall marked as preferable on pages 38 and 39, and all the variants listed by Hall are given in the footnotes. A group of sections in the first book (1. 53–65; P. 1. 32 b–35; H. 1. 30 b–32), which were printed as a continuous passage by Hall, are arranged separately, each followed by its own interpretation in the commentary, so as to conform to the rest of the text. The volume contains also a detailed table of contents, a list of the works quoted in the commentary, and an index of all verses thus cited from other authors, with an indication, in many cases, of their source.
4. Concerning the Present Edition
Constitution of the text. The Sanskrit text contained in the present edition is not based on any new examination of manuscripts[1] and can not, therefore, lay claim to any independent value. Aside from a few corrections, Hall’s text is reproduced without change, with the substitution, however, in nearly all cases, of those of his variant readings designated by him as preferable on pages 38 and 39 of his edition. The only departures from Hall’s text and variants (that is, from the text as printed by Parab) are the following:
- ↑ On manuscripts of DR. see Aufrecht, Catalogus Catalogorum, 1. 247 b; 2. 53.
