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Contents of General Introduction, Part I.
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Interpretations by Whitney | xcv |
Exegetical notes contributed by Roth | xcvi |
The translation has for its underlying text that of the Berlin edition | xcvi |
This is the fact even in cases of corrigible corruptions | xcvi |
Cases of departure from the text of the Berlin edition | xcvii |
Whitney's growing skepticism and correspondingly rigid literalness | xcvii |
Poetic elevation and humor | xcviii |
13. Abbreviations and signs explained | xcix–cvi |
General scope of the list: it includes not only | xcix |
The downright or most arbitrary abbreviations, but also | xcix |
The abbreviated designations of books and articles | xcix |
Explanation of arbitrary signs: | |
Parentheses; square brackets | c |
Ell-brackets (⌊ ⌋); hand (☞) | c |
Small circle; Italic colon; Clarendon letters, a, b, c, etc. | c |
Alphabetic list of abbreviations | c |
14. Tabular view of translations and native comment | cvi–cvii |
Previous translations.—Native comment | cvi |
Chronologic sequence of previous translations and discussions | cvii |
General Intoduction, Part II.: partly from Whitney's material | cix—clxi |
General Premises | cix |
Contents of this Part | cix |
Authorship of this Part | cix |
1. Description of the manuscripts used by Whitney | cix–cxvi |
The brief designations of his manuscripts (sigla codicum) | cix |
Synoptic table of the manuscripts used by him | cx |
Table of the Berlin manuscripts of the Atharva-Veda | cx |
Whitney's critical description of his manuscripts: | |
Manuscripts used before publication of the text (B. P. M. W. E. I. H.; Bp. Bp.2) | cxi |
Manuscripts collated after publication of the text (O. R. T. K.; Op. D. Kp.) | cxiv |
2. The stanza çaṁ no devīr abhiṣṭaye as opening stanza | cxvi–cxvii |
As initial stanza of the text in the Kashmirian recension | cxvi |
As initial stanza of the Vulgate text | cxvi |
3. Whitney's Collation-Book and his collations | cxvii–cxix |
Description of the two volumes that form the Collation-Book | cxvii |
Whitney's fundamental transcript of the text | cxvii |
Collations made before publication of the text | cxviii |
The Berlin collations | cxviii |
The Paris and Oxford and London collations | cxviii |
Collations made after publication (made in 1875 or later) | cxviii |
Haug, Roth, Tanjore, Deccan, and Bikaner mss. | cxviii |
Other contents of the Collation-Book | cxviii |
4. Repeated verses in the manuscripts | cxix–cxx |
Abbreviated by pratīka with addition of ity ekā etc. | cxix |
List of repeated verses or verse-groups | cxix |
Further details concerning the pratīka and the addition | cxix |