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CONTENTS
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Plates, one in each volume of this work | |
Portrait of Whitney, facing page | xliii |
Facsimile of Kashmirian text, birch-bark leaf 187 a, just before page | 471 |
Prefatory and biographical and related matter | xvii–lxi |
Paragraphs in lieu of a preface by Whitney | xvii–xxi |
Announcement of this work | xvii |
Statement of its plan and scope and design | xviii |
The purpose and limitations and method of the translation | xix |
Editor's preface | xxiii–xlii |
Whitney's labors on the Atharva-Veda | xxiii |
The edition of the text or the "First volume" | xxiii |
Relation of this work to the "First volume" | xxiv |
And to this Series | xxiv |
External form of this work | xxiv |
Its general scope as determined by previous promise and fulfilment | xxv |
Of the critical notes in particular | xxvi |
Scope of the work as transcending previous promise | xxvii |
Evolution of the style of the work | xxvii |
Partial rewriting and revision by Whitney | xxvii |
Picking up the broken threads | xxviii |
Relation of the editor's work to that of the author | xxviii |
Parts for which the author is not responsible | xxviii |
The General Introduction, Part I.: by the editor | xxix |
The same, Part II.: elaborated in part from the author's material | xxix |
The editor's special introductions to the eighteen books, ii.–xix. | xxx |
The special introductions to the hymns: additions by the editor | xxx |
His bibliography of previous translations and discussions: contained in The paragraphs beginning with the word "Translated" | xxx |
Added special introductions to the hymns of book xviii. etc. | xxxi |
Other editorial additions at the beginning and end of hymns | xxxii |
Other additions of considerable extent | xxxii |
The seven tables appended to the latter volume of this work | xxxii |
Unmarked minor additions and other minor changes | xxxiii |
The marked minor additions and other minor changes | xxxiv |
The revision of the author's manuscript. Verification | xxxiv |
Accentuation of Sanskrit words | xxxv |
Cross-references | xxxv |
Orthography of Anglicized proper names | xxxv |
Editorial short-comings and the chances of error | xxxv |
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