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9- Readings of the Kashmirian or Paippaldda Recension Ixxxv
handling without injury. To copy the birch-bark leaves in their proper
order is a process by which they need suffer no harm ;
and this is precisely
what Roth did (see p.
Ixxxii) as soon as possible after finishing the
pressing task of making the Collation for Whitney. LJS®"" ^"^^ P- '°4Sj
Care taken in the use of Roth's Collation.
Word-division. — In carrying
this work through the press, I have constantly and with the most scrupulous
pains utilized
Roth's original Collation and his supplementary notes
thereto, endeavoring thus to check any errors concerning the Kashmirian
readings that might have crept into Whitney's copy for the printer.
Roth's system of transliteration differs
chances for mistakes arising through confusion of
Since
considerably from Whitney's, the
the two systems were
numerous ; and I have taken due care to avoid them. It may here be
noted that Whitney's system transliterates anusvara before a labial by m
and not by ;« ; ' but that in printing the Kashmirian readings, I have
followed the Collation in rendering final anusvara by m (or «), save before
vowels. Furthermore, in making use of Roth's Collation, Whitney has
habitually attempted to effect a satisfactory word-division. In many
cases this is hardly practicable ; and in such cases it was probably a
mistake to attempt it. For examples, one may consult the readings at
v. 29. 2, 'syatavio ; vi. 44. 2, saroganam ; 109. \ ,
jivdtava yati ; 129. 3, vrkse
sdrpitah intending vrksesv ar-; vii. 70. i, drstd rdjyo, intending drstdd dj-.
The Kashmirian readings have not been verified directly from the facsimile
by the editor. — As the facsimile appeared in 1901, it is proper for
me to give a reason for my procedure in this matter. In fact, both my
editorial work and the printing were very far advanced^ in
1901, so that
a change of method would in itself have been questionable; but an
entirely sufficient and indeed a compelling reason is to be found in the
fact that it would have been and still is a task requiring very much labor
and time to find the precise place of the Kashmirian parallel of any given
verse of
the Vulgate, a task which can no more be done en passant than
can the task of editing a Prati^akhya,— all this apart from the difficulties
of the Carada alphabet.
Provisional means for finding Vulgate verses in the facsimile.— Whitney
noted in pencil in his Collation-Book, opposite each Vulgate passage having
a Kashmirian parallel, the number of the leaf of the Kashmirian text
on which that parallel is found, adding « or ^ to indicate the obverse or
the reverse of the leaf. These numbers undoubtedly refer to the leaves
of Roth's Kashmirian nagarl transcript (No. 16, Garbe) from which Roth
' I am sorry to observe that the third (posthumous) edition of his Grammar (see pages 518-9)
misrepresents him upon this point.
2 The main part of this book was in type as far as page 614 (xi. i. 12) in Dec. 1901. The
remainder (as far as p. 1009, the end) was in type Dec. 13, 1902.