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Contents of Prefatory and Related Matter
The biographical and related matter | xxxvi |
General significance of Whitney's work | xxxvii |
Need of a systematic commentary on the Rig-Veda | xxxvii |
The Century Dictionary of the English Language | xxxviii |
Acknowledgments | xxxviii |
Human personality and the progress of science | xl |
The same in English verse and in Sanskrit verse | xli–xlii |
Biographical and related matter | xliii–lxi |
Brief sketch of Whitney's life: by the editor | xliii |
Estimate of Whitney's character and services: by the editor | xlvii |
Select list of Whitney's writings: by Whitney | lvi |
General Introduction, Part I.: by the editor | lxiii—cvii |
General Premises | lxiii–lxiv |
Scope of this Part of the Introduction | lxiii |
Scope of the reports of the variant readings | lxiii |
The term "manuscripts" often used loosely for "authorities" | lxiv |
Which authorities are both manuscripts and oral reciters | lxiv |
Difficulty of verifying statements as to authorities | lxiv |
1. Readings of European manuscripts of the Vulgate recension | lxiv–lxv |
Reports include mss. collated, some before, and some after publication | lxiv |
Interpretation of the records of the Collation-Book | lxv |
2. Readings of Indian manuscripts of the Vulgate | lxvi |
By "Indian mss." are meant those used by S. P. Pandit | lxvi |
His reports not exhaustive | lxvi |
3. Readings of Indian oral reciters of the Vulgate | lxvi–lxvii |
By "Indian oral reciters" are meant those employed by S. P. Pandit | lxvi |
Errors of the eye checked by oral reciters | lxvi |
4. Readings of the Hindu commentator | lxvii–lxviii |
The critical value and the range of his variant readings | lxvii |
Excursus: Was he identical with Sāyaṇa of the Rig-Veda? | lxviii |
5. Readings of the Pada-pāṭha | lxix–lxx |
Reported in Index Verborum, and since published in full | lxix |
Illustrations of its deficiencies | lxix |
In verb-compounds and various other combinations | lxix–lxx |
6. The Prātiçākhya and its commentary | lxx–lxxi |
Character of Whitney's editions of the Prātiçākhyas | lxx |
Their bearing upon the orthography and criticism of the text | lxx |
Utilization of the Atharvan Prātiçākhya for the present work | lxxi |
7. The Anukramaṇīs: "Old" and "Major" | lxxi–lxxiv |
More than one Anukramaṇī extant | lxxi |
The Pañcapaṭalikā or "Old Anukr." or "Quoted Anukr." | lxxi |
Manuscripts thereof | lxxii |
The Bṛhatsarvānukramaṇī or "Major Anukr." | lxxii |
Manuscripts thereof | lxxii |
Text-critical value of the Anukramaṇīs | lxxiii |
The author of the Major Anukr. as a critic of meters | lxxiii |
His statements as to the seers of the hymns (quasi-authorship) | lxxiv |