xirii ARY ABHATIΥΑ haplographical omissions which clinch the point. There is also at least one instance of a common reading in a textual verse, while the commentary explains not this reading but a variant thereof. These common features indicate that these manuscripts belong to one version and are descended from an exemplar thereof which contained the above-noted haplographical omissions and inexact readings. Version II. In the same manner, it can be seen that manuscripts C and D represent another version characterised by common readings as opposed to A-B-C littered on practically every page of the present edition. Common omissions and gaps found in them also point to the same conclusion. A peculiar feature of these two manuscripts is that, at places, they present apparently revised forms or simpler elaborations of difficult or unexplained passages. Version II is, therefore, a later, slightly revised form of the commentary. It is important to note that often they serve in filling the common haplographical and other omissions in A-B-C and also help in correcting the errors therein. Sub-versions of II. While both D and E are slightly inflated versions in which a few explanatory passages have been added and simpler and effective readings have been substituted, these changes are not always identical. This would mean that these two manuscripts have to be taken as two sub-versions of an expanded version, postulated here as version II. The differences between D and E are not confined to mutually different readings, but extend to either of them retaining the original reading of A-B-C, offering additions, explanatory or otherwise, making omissions and, in an instance or two, giving entirely different commentaries of the textual verses. Obviously, the ”ے۔ـــــــــــــــمـصـــــــــــــــــــــــــہ Vide 63.6 ; 64.2 ; 69.10 ; 73.3 ; 81.5 ; 99.11 ; 110.4 ; 149.16. See 173. मूलम् 1. See 20.2; 107.1 ; 108.1 ; 141.11 ; 142.3. See 55.4; 65.6, 12; 68.2; 69.10; 99.11; 110.4; 113.11. See 63.4; 70.2; 73.5, 10; 85.12; 149.12; 157.8 ; 162.3. Vide 65.3 ; 91.6 ; 111.19, 22 ; 152.4. See 14.1 : 51.13; 99.4; 130.2 ; 132.7. See 48.10, 11 ; 106.10; 107.7. See 13.15; 918. ; 185.2.
