The Epigrams Attributed To Bhartrhari: Including The Three Centuries For The First Time Collected And Critically Edited, With Principal Variants And An Introduction

The only critical edition of the most important anthology of Sanskrit poetry, the famous Satakatraya ascribed to Bhartrhari, this magnum opus of D.D. Kosambi, mathematician, historian, Indologist, in fact an outstanding intellectual of pre- and post-Independent India, is made available again. A milestone in the adoption of the Western methods of textual criticism by Indians, Kosambi's edition contains in addition to the text of three centuries in the sequence niti, srngara and vairagya along with a detailed and highly informative critical apparatus, a long "Introduction" in which all the necessary information about the edition is given and all the problems posed by the manuscript material and their transmission are discussed. An "Alphabetical Index of Slokas" considerably enhances the usefulness of this addition. A must for all sahrdayas! Contents Preface/Prof. Albrecht Wezler Foreword/Acarya jinavijaya Muni Editor's Preface I. INTRODUCTION : 1. Scope of the Present Edition 2. Abbreviations Used for Sources of MSS 3. Abbreviations Used for Citing Anthologies 4. The Manuscript Apparatus 5. Synoptic Chart of Major Version II. COLLECTION AND DISTRIBUTION OF THE MS EVIDENCE : 1. Methods of Gathering the MSS 2. Sarada-Kasmiri 3. Nepal, Mithila, Bengal III. ANALYSIS AND GROUPING OF THE MSS : 1. The Chart 2. Use of the Chart 3. Evidence of the Grouping 4. Omissions and Inclusions 5. The Groups 6. Discussion of the Groups 7. Testimonia IV. DETERMINATION OF THE TEXT : 1. The Problem 2. Nature of the Commonest Variants 3. Methods of Determining the Readings 4. Applications of the Method 5. Starred Readings and Hiatus V. WHO WAS BHARTRHARI? : 1. The Problem of Identification 2. The Traditions 3. The Stanzas THE SANSKRIT TEXT : Group I : [STANZAS FOUND IN ALL VERSIONS] : 1. Unplaced 2. Niti 3. Srngara 4. Vairagya Group II : [STANZAS THERE IS REASON TO SUSPECT] Group III : [STRAY VERSES] Group IV : [APOCRYPHA] : 1. The Vitavrtta 2. The Vijnanasataka Alphabetical Index of Slokas Addenda and Corrigenda