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Contents of General Introduction, Part I.
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| 8. The Kāuçika-Sūtra and the Vāitāna-Sūtra | lxxiv–lxxix |
| The work of Garbe and Bloomfield and Caland | lxxiv |
| Bearing of Sūtras upon criticism of structure and text of Saṁhitā | lxxv |
| Grouping of mantra-material in Sūtra and in Saṁhitā compared | lxxv |
| Many difficulties of the Kāuçika yet unsolved | lxxvi |
| Value of the Sūtras for the exegesis of the Saṁhitā | lxxvii |
| Kāuçika no good warrant for dogmatism in the exegesis of Saṁhitā | lxxvii |
| Integer vitae as a Christian funeral-hymn | lxxviii |
| Secondary adaptation of mantras to incongruous ritual uses | lxxviii |
| 9. Readings of the Kashmirian or Pāippalāda recension | lxxix–lxxxix |
| Its general relations to the Vulgate or Çāunakan recension | lxxix |
| The unique birch-bark manuscript thereof (perhaps about A.D. 1519) | lxxx |
| Roth's Kashmirian nāgarī transcript (Nov. 1874) | lxxxi |
| Arrival (1876) of the birch-bark original at Tübingen | lxxxi |
| Roth's Collation (June, 1884) of the Pāippalāda text | lxxxi |
| Roth's autograph nāgarī transcript (Dec. 1884) | lxxxii |
| The facsimile of the birch-bark original (1901) | lxxxii |
| Roth's Collation not exhaustive | lxxxiii |
| Faults of the birch-bark manuscript | lxxxiii |
| Collation not controlled by constant reference to the birch-bark ms. | lxxxiv |
| Such reference would have ruined the birch-bark ms. | lxxxiv |
| Care taken in the use of Roth's Collation. Word-division | lxxxv |
| Kashmirian readings not controlled directly from the facsimile | lxxxv |
| Provisional means for such control: the Concordance (pages 1018–1023) | lxxxv |
| Excursus: The requirements for an edition of the Pāippalāda: | lxxxvi |
| 1. A rigorously precise transliteration | lxxxvii |
| 2. Marginal references to the Vulgate parallels | lxxxvii |
| 3. Index of Vulgate verses thus noted on the margin | lxxxvii |
| 4. Accessory material: conjectures, notes, translations. | lxxxviii |
| 10. Readings of the parallel texts | lxxxix–xci |
| The texts whose readings are reported | lxxxix |
| The method of reporting aims at the utmost accuracy | lxxxix |
| Completeness of the reports far from absolute | xc |
| Reports presented in well-digested form | xc |
| 11. Whitney's Commentary: further discussion of its critical elements | xci–xciii |
| Comprehensiveness of its array of parallels | xci |
| Criticism of specific readings | xci |
| Illustrations of classes of text-errors | xcii |
| Auditory errors. Surd and sonant. Twin consonants | xcii |
| Visual errors. Haplography | xciii |
| Metrical faults. Hypermetric glosses, and so forth | xciii |
| Blend-readings | xciii |
| 12. Whitney's Translation and the interpretative elements of the Commentary | xciv–xcix |
| The translation: general principles governing the method thereof | xciv |
| The translation not primarily an interpretation, but a literal version | xciv |
| A literal version as against a literary one | xciv |
| Interpretative elements: captions of the hymns | xcv |
