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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 |
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| 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 |
