or other data of a reliable character. It was, therefore, condemned as unauthoritative by Prof. Otto Schrader and M. Pritz.'
In 1930, however, the former brought out his edition of the Kathmir Recension of 4he Text of the Bhagavadgita through M. Kolhammar, Stuttgard, on the basis of (!) Abhinavagupta's commentary published by the N. S. Press, Bombay in 1912 along with the text and other com. mentaries, (2) MS. No. 3271 at the India Office Library of the work with the commentary of Ramakaitha alias Ramakavi named Savatobhadra and (3) a birch-bark MS. of the bare text upto 8. 18, bearing No. 6763 D at the MSS. Library at the British MuseumThis recension had no connection with the text as attempted to be reconstructed by Harisayogin but had neverthless several other distinguishing features. They were :-(1) That it contained 14 complete and # half stanzas, of which there was no trace in the Vulgate ; (2) that the number of the different readings which it contained was 282, and (3) that the stanzas numbered 2. 66–67 in the Vulgate did not form part of it. The birch bark MShad the Vulgate stanza 5. 19 not at its proper place and also not after 6. 9 as in the commentaries but that must obviously have been due to the inadvertance of its copyist. Moreover, the existence of the commentary of Abhinavagupta thereon and that of other previous ones referred to therein showed that said recension had been recognised for several centuries in Kamir either as the only one known to the Paidits there or as the only one acceptable to them as the authoritative one. Schrader thought that, such a recension must have been current in that province between the latter half of the 10th century when REmakaitha was believed to have hourished and the 14th century when the Pratyabhijia school, to which Abhinavagupta belonged, believed to have become extinct.
The interest created by this publication led Pandit Laxman Raina Brahmachari of Srinagar to publish separately the text with the com mentary of Abhinavagupta in A. D. 1933, MrS. N. Tad patrikar of Poona was then inspired to collect together and study several MSS. of the work in the Sarada and Nagari scripts at the Bhandarkar Institute and to publish in A. D. 1934 a critical edition of the work as the Pant
1. See Otto Schrader's paper thereon in the Garde Frtchriolar (1927) and that of M. Pritz in ZDMG, 1930. Rajavaidya ] varam Kalidas of Goidal, Kathiawi¢ too hal examined this edition and shown how the editor ha ritten the Gid from hi ०wn imaginary stand-point Sri Bhagavadgild (Goi¢al, 1937) Introduction pp• 16-17. 2. Dr. T. R. Chintamani ha, in his Introduction to the Madras University edition of this reeension with the commentary of Ramakai¢ha named subatobhodna, stated (pp. Evii-x: ri) that prior to Abhinavagupta, 5 other persons, namely u) Vanguga , the founder of the Trila Saivism of Kimi and the author of the stoania (sub cant. A .D.), (2) Anandavardhana , (3) Ramakaitha, (4) Bhaskara, and (5) Lankaand commented upon this seceasion of the G. B. G. I,
