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Contents of General Introduction, Part II.
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5. Refrains and the like in the manuscripts | cxx–cxxi |
Written out in full only in first and last verse of a sequence | cxx |
Treated by the Anukramaṇī as if unabbreviated | cxx |
Usage of the editions in respect of such abbreviated passages | cxxi |
6. Marks of accentuation in the manuscripts | cxxi–cxxiii |
Berlin edition uses the Rig-Veda method of marking accents | cxxi |
Dots for lines as accent-marks | cxxi |
Marks for the independent svarita | cxxii |
Horizontal stroke for svarita | cxxii |
Udātta marked by vertical stroke above, as in Māitrāyaṇī | cxxii |
Accent-marks in the Bombay edition | cxxii |
Use of a circle as avagraha-sign | cxxii |
7. Orthographic method pursued in the Berlin edition | cxxiii–cxxvi |
Founded on the usage of the mss., but controlled by the Prātiçakhyā | cxxiii |
That treatise an authority only to a certain point | cxxiii |
Its failure to discriminate between rules of wholly different value | cxxiii |
Items of conformity to the Prātiçakhyā and of departure therefrom | cxxiv |
Transition-sounds: as in tān-t-sarvān | cxxiv |
Final -n before ç- and j-: as in paçyañ janmāni | cxxiv |
Final -n before c-: as in yāṅç ca | cxxiv |
Final -n before t-: as in tāṅs te | cxxiv |
Final -t before ç-: as in asmac charavaḥ | cxxv |
Abbreviation of consonant groups: as in pan̄kti | cxxv |
Final -m and -n before l-: as in kaṅ lokam | cxxv |
Visarga before st- and the like: as in ripu stenaḥ | cxxvi |
The kampa-figures 1 and 3 | cxxvi |
The method of marking the accent | cxxvi |
8. Metrical form of the Atharvan Saṁhitā | cxxvi–cxxvii |
Predominance of anuṣṭubh stanzas | cxxvi |
Extreme irregularity of the metrical form | cxxvii |
Apparent wantonness in the alteration of Rig-Veda material | cxxvii |
To emend this irregularity into regularity is not licit | cxxvii |
9. Divisions of the text | cxxvii–cxl |
Summary of the various divisions | cxxvii |
The first and second and third "grand divisions" | cxxvii |
1. The (unimportant) division into prapāṭhakas or 'lectures' | cxxviii |
Their number and distribution and extent | cxxviii |
Their relation to the anuvāka-divisions | cxxviii |
2. The (fundamental) division into kāṇḍas or 'books' | cxxix |
3. The division into anuvākas or 'recitations' | cxxix |
Their number, and distribution over books and grand divisions | cxxix |
Their relation to the hymn-divisions in books xiii.–xviii. | cxxx |
4. The division into sūktas or 'hymns' | cxxxi |
The hymn-divisions not everywhere of equal value | cxxxi |
5. The division into ṛcas or 'verses' | cxxxi |
6. Subdivisions of verses: avasānas, pādas, and so forth | cxxxii |