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5- Refrains and the like in the Manuscripts cxxi
a few instances, however, it does not do so : such instances may be found
at XV. 2, where the Anukr. counts 28 instead of 32 or 4 x 8 ; at xv. 5 (16
instead of 7 x 3) ; at xvi. 5 (10 instead of 6 x 3) ; at xvi. 8 (33 instead of
108 or 27 x 4) : cf. the discussions at p. 774, \ 2, p. 772, ^ 3, p. 793 end,
p. 794 top. Such treatment shows that the text has (as we may express
it) become mutilated in consequence of the abbreviations, and it shows
how old and how general they have been. — One and another ms., however,
occasionally fills out some of the omissions — especially R., which,
for example, in viii. 10 writes so 'd akrdmat every time when it is a real
part of the verse.
Usage of the editions in respect of such abbreviated passages. — Very
often SPP. prints in full the abbreviated passages in both samhitd and
pada form, thus presenting a great quantity of useless and burdensome
repetitions. Our edition takes advantage of the usage of the mss. to
abbreviate extensively ;
but it departs from their usage in so far as always
to give full intimation of the omitted portions by initial words and by
signs of omission. In all cases where the mss. show anything peculiar,
it is specially pointed out in the notes on the verses.
6. Marks of Accentuation in the Manuscripts
Berlin edition uses the Rig-Veda method of marking accents. — The
modes of marking the accent followed in the different mss. and parts of
mss. of the AV. are so diverse, that we were fully justified in adopting
for our edition the familiar and sufficient method of the RV. That
method is followed strictly throughout in books i.-v. and xix. of the Haug
ms. material described above at p. cxiv under O. i and 4, but only there,
and there possibly only by the last and modern copyist. LWhitney notes
in the margin that it is followed also in book xviii. of O., and in books
i.-iii. and iv. of Op., and in part of Bp.'^". In this last ms., which is
Chambers, 1 17, of book i., thej method of accentuation is at the beginning
that of the Rik, but soon passes over to another fashion, precisely like
that of Bp. Lsee next ^J saving that horizontal lines are made use of
instead of dots. The method continues so to the end.
Dots for lines as accent-marks. — The use of round dots instead of lines
as accent-marks is a method that has considerable vogue. It is applied
uniformly in the pada-mss. at Berlin (except in Bp.^" as just stated) : a
dot below the line is the anuddttatara-s\gn, in its usual place ; then the
sign of the enclitic svarita is a dot, usually not above, but within the
aksara ; and the independent svarita is marked either by the latter
method or else by a line drawn transversely upward to the right through
the syllable. The dots, however, are unknown elsewhere, save in a
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