b) The Kadmir Recension with .Commentaties and its Probable Genesia.
This Part contains another section, Section B, comprising an Index of the variants occurring in the Kiiti Recension of the Bhagavadgia. The Vulgate, which is commented upon by Saikara and others, contains 700 stanzas as , expressly mentioned by Saikara in the introductory part of his Bhasya. Out of them 574 have been placed in the mouth of Sri Krsna, 83 in that of Arjuna, 42 in that of Saijaya and 1 in that of Dhttarastra. These stanzas are distributed in the different chapters in the following manner, namely :-Sr Bhaga en-2. 2-3, 11-72; 3. 3-35, 37-43 ; 4. 1-3, 5-42; 5. 2-29 ; 6. 1-32, 35-36, 40-+7; 7, 1-30; 8. 3-28 ; 9. 1-34; 10. 1-11, 19-42; -11 5-8, 32-34, 4749, 52-55 ; 12. 2–20; 13. 2-34; 14. 1-20, 22-27; 5. 120 ; 16. 1-24 17. 2-28; 18, 2–72, i.e. to say, 64 + 40 + 41 + 28 + 42 + 30 + 26 + 34+ 35 + 14 + 19 + 33 + 26 + 20 + 24 + 27 + 71 = 574, Arjuna 1. 20-23, 27-46 ; 2. 4-8; 3. 1-2, 36; 4. 4; 5. 1; 6. 33-34, 37-39; 1-2 ; 10. 12-18; 11. 1-4, 15-31, 36-46; 12. 1; 13. 1 ; 14. 21 ; 17. 1 18. 1, 73, i. e. 21 + 5 + 3 + 1 + 1 + 5 + 2 + 7+ 32 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 2 =83.-Safjay4-- 1.2-204, 24-27x, 47; 2. 1, 9-10; 11.9-14, 35, 50-51 18. 74-73, i. e. 25 + 3 + 2 + 5 = 42.-Dirtarastra-1. 1
In A. D, 1917 one Haisayogin of Madras published through the Suddha Dharma Mahamaidala there for the first time a different version thereof in which the number of stanzas had been brought up to 745 in supposed conformity with a stanza (43-7), in the Bia param of the Mahabharata as edited in Bombay, and in some MSS. thereof procured from Northern India, to the effect that there were in the GF4 745 stanzas made up as follows:–620 coming fronm the mouth of Kesava (instead of 574), 57 from that of Arjuna (instead of 83), 67 from that of Saijaya (instead of 42) and 1 from that of Dhrtarastra. That version consisted of the work as divided into 26 (instead of 18 chapters, in 2# of which there were uniformly 24 stanzas coming from the mouth of Sri Krsna and 39 of the stanzas in the Vulgate had been omitted and 84 new ones selected from the Udyoga, Arrasang and Santi Parvans besides the Bigma, had been incorporated under the supposition that the text of the Bhagavadgita as it originally existed could not have contained the former and must have contained the latter. This hypothesis was not supported by any Ms evidence
1. J. H. P. edition p. 4. That edition actually contains 699 stanzas only. This is found on comparison thereof with the N. S. P. and G. P. editions to be due to a difer. ence in the make-up of the stanzas 1.26, 36 and 2:24, each of them having 3 instead the usual 2 lines in an Anustubh as in the other edition and that of the stanza 2.25 which has one line only. The total number of lines in all the editions is thus the same If this difierence is ignored the number 700 of the stanzas in the vulgate is found to have been made up thus :- 47+72 + 42 + 42 + 29+47+30+28+34 + 42 + 55+20+3+ +217+20 + 24 + 28 +78= 700.
