resolved to apply my time and energy to the task of preparing an Index-Verborum to the Bhagadget, which has already taken its place in the literature of the world and is, therefore, a work of more frequent reference to research scholars in all the civilised countries than many others in the feld of Sanskrit literature.
When I did so, I hoped to be able to place before the public a complete index within about six month' s time. Bnt in course of time I was informed that there were already such indices in the field, namely, (1) that appended to the edition of the work in the Indirana Sanskrit Series, (2) that in the Congowduce & the Upanings and the Bhug«vadgil by Col. Jacob and (3) that prepared by Mahatma Gandhi and published by the Navajivan Prakasan Mandir, Ahmedabad as a separate booket under the title GFaipaddrthdoga. Some time was, therefore, taken up in obtaining copies of the said works and examining them. Having done 80, I found that each of them had been based on some one edition of the work and had taken no note of the variae lectionks, of whose existence even in the case of the Vulgate there was ample evidence in the commentaries of the writers of the different schools beginning with Sankaracarya, and of the simple words of which the compound words had been made up Moreover all of them, having been prepared prior to A.D. 1930, when Dr. Schrader first brought a separate Kasir recension to the notice of the world of Oriental scholars, could not naturally have taken any notice of the said recension. I also found that the A. S. Series edition contained several mistakes, that Jacob's work contained the words of the Gita mixed up with those of the 66 Upanisads which he had consulted for comparison and contained no solutions of compounds and no list of words common to the simple and compound words and that the Ahmedabad Index was not likely to be useful to the scholars engaged in linguistic and historical researches because it did not contain an exhaustive mention of all the references in the case of certain words, did not contain a uniform order of arrangement through out and did not take note of the simple words included in compound words and a list of the units common to the simple and compound words. I, therefore, concluded that there was sufficient scope for a carefully-planned, exhau8tive and critical index such as I had in view.
II. Primary Word-Uwits and the Critical Apparatus for them.
(c) The vulgate with Commentaries
An attempt has been made to make this such an index by the adoption of the following means and method. The text of the work as printed in the popular large typed Nirnaya Sagar Press edition has been taken as the eitio priceps for getting all the Primary word-units e. to say
