This page has been proofread, but needs to be validated.
xlii
INTRODUCTION
1. 119 I retain antaryavanikā°, disregarding Hall’s expressed reference (p. 38) for °javanikā°.
2. 27 Emendation of °yāvanānaṅgā to °yānvanānaṅgā.
78 Adoption of °sphūrja° for °sphiñja°.
80 Adoption of narmasphūrjaḥ for narmasphiñjaḥ.
83 Emendation of °dayājavaiḥ to °dayārjavaiḥ.
89 Emendation of °parigrahaḥ to °parigraham, to remedy faulty grammatical construction.
4. 34 Emendation of the unintelligible °garbhādejahmya° to °garbhāderjāḍyaṃ.
41 Adoption of one of Hall’s variants, °tvarāśvāsa.
52 Substitution of Dhanika’s vikāsa for the vikāśa of the printed texts.
83 Change of ati° to atī° to satisfy metrical requirements.
87 Adoption of one of Hall’s variants, aniṣṭāpteḥ.
89 Adoption of lakṣma° from Hall’s variant reading.

For details see the notes on the respective sections.

The numbering of sections. The system of numbering in the edition of Parab differs from that followed by Hall (and reprinted by Vidyāsāgara) sufficiently to interfere with rapid consultation of passages in an edition other than the particular one referred to.[1] Furthermore, the method employed in these editions does not permit of accurate citation, especially of the briefer definitions, without the cumbersome addition of letters and superior figures.[2] I have accordingly decided, after mature deliberation, while preserving the very practical division into four books, to renumber the work according to logical sections and thus to establish a simple numerical designation for every definition or part of a definition that is separately treated in Dhanika’s commentary. At the head of each section I have placed not only the new number thus assigned, but also the number in the editions of Parab and of Hall,[3] so that passages may be con-

  1. Note, for example, the following variations: P. 1. 67=H. 1. 60; P. 2. 62=H. 2. 57; P. 3. 57=H. 3. 51; P. 4. 67=H. 4. 61.
  2. The brief definition of the term parisarpa, DR. 1. 54, had to be cited heretofore as H. 1. 30 b2, c1, or as P. 1. 32 b1, 33 a2. Similarly DR. 3. 8=H. 3. 7, 8 a1=P. 3. 7 b, 8 a, b1.
  3. Vidyāsāgara’s numbering is identical with that of Hall.