APPENDIX. The following variations of the text and one or two new inter- -pretations are printed as likely to be of use to the student. The different readings have been mostly gathered together by Babu Govinda Dasa of Benares from various MSS. and different com- mentaries. The new interpretations have been suggested by Pandit Vrindavana SArasvata of Benares, who passed away only in this year (1905 A. D.). The interpretations are worthy of attention because of their prima facie aptness. This gentleman used to say that he had practically studied only two works in the course of a fairly long life, the Bhagavad-Gita and the Yoga-Vasishtha ; and the kind of study he gave to these may be inferred from the fact that, as he said shortly before his death, he had read the Yoffa- Vastshtha through one-hundred and sixty-five times and the work consists of sixty-four thousand lines-while the Gita was read through too often to be counted. Under these circumstances it is easy to see that his interpretations are at least as notable as many older ones.
