Each of these editora has brushed aside as unworthy of the serious attention of a scholar the clumsy attempt of Harisayujin of Madras to re-construct the Gh as per its contents described in the Binaparea , Nevertheless, owing to the alleged existence of three translations in Persian of a text of the Gia purporting to contain 745 stanzas, two of them in verse and one in prose, referred to by Pandit Mahesh Prasad of Benares in * his short paper on Arabi-Farasimen Gita' published in the Bhagavadgitaka of the Hindi journal Kalyapa of the Gita Press, Gorakhpur, all of them except Mr. Tadpatrikar think it likely that a further more patient and thorough search may reveal the existence of a Msof the work containing 745 stanzas and therefore do not confidently assert that the stanza in chapter 43 of the Bigna parea above referred to, must be an interpolation and not based on the truth as to the original G¢ having 745 stanzaB. MrTadpatrikar has, while difering from this view, cited that of the late Dr. Sukhtankar, till lately the learned General Editor of the Mahabharata, which is that Schrader's view that the original std must have contained the additional stanzas found in the Kasmir recension and that they must have been cut down to make up the preconceived number 700 is not supported by the MSS. from several centres at his command and that of Prof. Barnet that 'the tradition ” as to the KEmir recension has been a little warped by editorial emendations and possibly also by some interpolations, and that whether inspite of these change it is nearer to the original G!d is still not clear . He has also e pressed a hope that the question will be dealt with very exhaustively in the critical edition of the Bhimraparea which is under preparation from MSS. collected at Poona from several provincesparticularly Bengal, where the Royal Asiatic Society has a fairly large collection of rare MSS. in the Sarada script of KE8mr
It appeared from an announcement made by the late Dr. Sukhtankar at the Silver Jubilee celebrations of the Institute in January 1943 that owing to a shortage of the required quality of paper and of funds it was uncertain when it would be possible to publish the Biswapra, although the press-copy thereof would be ready within a short period. We had, however, a sufficient foretaste of the probable result of the
1. Introduction to Pant Patinidhi Sees No1, pp. 5-6 2, It had been announced in a publication of the Institute of 1945 that a special arrangement had been made for rinting this Paran a early as practicable. About 8 day before this was sent so the Press, I learnt that a Fashika of the Bhimpawa as to be published on the Riphicam day this year along with a separate critical edition of the Bhagavadgil, presumably prepared from the MSS. above noticed. Copied thereof were not however available to the subscribera to the critical Edition of the Mbh, till thi was actually sent to the presnot, revie I could , thereforetake any thereof hore
