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ADDENDA AND CORRIGENDA. It should be noted, in addition to what is said at the end of $ 1 (p. 2), that when the abbreviations 'VS.' etc. indicate the occurrence of a form in a later Veda, they only mean that the form in question is not found in the RV., while it may occur in parallel passages of one or more of the other Samhitās also. The symbols '+VS.' etc. are intended to draw attention to the fact that the form indicated occurs in a later Samhitä as well as in the RV. - In the enumeration of words, stems, inflected forms, and suffixes, initial alphabetical order is the principle followed. But it is occasionally varied for clearness of grouping. Thus the arrangement, in the case of compounds, is sometimes according to the final member (e. g. 308, 375 A, 591 a) or, in the case of roots, according to the medial or final vowel (e. g. 421, 483). The principle is also departed from when examples only of very frequent forms are given. Thus the nom. forms of present participles are arranged in the order of the conjugational classes (314); the nom. and other cases of the a-declension are given according to frequency of occurrence (372). Adverbs are classed according to the alphabetical order of the suffixes (626-640) or the sequence of the cases (641-644). — The principle of giving the meanings of words has been followed throughout the work. But this has been modified in two ways in the enumeration of inflected forms. In declension the meaning is given only with the first occurrence of a case-form of any word found in the same paragraph (e. g. 372). It seemed impossible to follow the same method in lists of inflected verbal forms. For, owing to the modifications of sense due to context and compounding with prepositions, the meaning could not be satisfactorily stated by giving it with the first occurrence of forms from the same root. The meaning has therefore been stated with the root only or when forms from different roots might be confused (e. g. 444, 445). But as the index gives the meaning of every root and enumerates all paragraphs containing forms from that root, the general sense of all such forms may easily be ascertained. - As regards references, figures without an added 'p.' always indicate paragraphs when books are divided into paragraphs; e. g. 'DELBRÜCK, Verbum 184 (p. 166-169)'; otherwise they refer to the page. When pages have to be referred to they are for the convenience of the reader often divided into quarters; thus LANMAN 3723 means the third quarter of p. 372 in LANMAN'S Noun-Inflection. P. 23, line 19 for orignal read original. P. 51, note 2, for *guzdhá read

  • gugdha-.- P. 56, 1. 27, for AV. read Av. and for 'weak read weak. - P. 58, 1. 4

from below, for cak[anlanta read cak[anlantu. -- P. 60, l. 2, for appears read appears as. - P. 61, 1.7, for become read becomes; 1. 34, for (a-yās read a-yas; 1. 36, for fall') read 'fall'. - P. 66, $72, 2 b: cp. OLDENBERG, ZDMG. 63, 298. ---- P. 67, 1. 30, for There seems to be no certain instance of this in the RV. read This is of regular and, as far as d is concerned, of very frequent occurrence in the RV., e. g. tán (for tád) mitrásya (1. 1155); 1. 31, after cakrán ná Indo-arische Philologie I. 4. 28 -