with the same initial letters and mentioning by their side all the simple
Primary Word-Units and the serial numbers of the secondary Tertiary
and Quaternary Word-Units in which the same basic forms had been
found. The words occurring in the variant readings and the additional
lines and stanzas in the Kasmir Recension have been similarly dealt with
in separate sections and sub-sections in those parts
V. Concluding Remarks.
This Index was thus prepared on keeping before me an ideal to make it both exhaustive and critical so far as the text of the Bhagavad gita as we have it nowwas concerned. Laborious and tedious as this task may appear to be, it has been to me a labour of love , a pastime during my leisure-time, which has been ample since my retirement from service and an agreeable subject for the occupation of the mind about whose nature what Arjuna has stated and Sri Krsna has confirmed in Bhagavadgita 6. 33-36 is as much true to-day as it was in the far distant age in which those stanzas were composed. As the Lord has stated in 2. 47 my Adhikara lay in the Karma alone. I have done it to the best of my ability taking as my beacon-light the spirit under lying that stanza and have in all humility dedicated the fruit thereof to Him.
Part I of the volume is complete by itself and I hope that all those students of the Gia who prefer to study its wording without being influenced by the interpretation put upon it by the protagonists of the rival schools of philosophy and theology, will get sufficient help and guidance from it. Parts II and III are intended for the benefit of those who have the enthusiasm and patience to make a deeper study of the language of the work either for their personal edification or for purpose of solving some knotty problem relating to the view of the author on any point of philosophical interest, or to the history of Indian philosophy or of the Sanskrit language and literature as a whole or to the course of evolution of the Indian culture and civilisation generally There is to my mind no doubt as to the usefulness of the Bhagavadgild for any of the above purposes, because it is the only work of the post Vedic age which has been preserved in a pure form. Though one cannot say that it has preserved that form since its very composition, owing to the discovery of the statement in some MSS. of the Bisana parea as to its having contained 745 stanzas and of the Kakmir re cension of the text, stil there is no doubt as to the text as known to the commentator .D. 788-820) having remained undebased Sankara (A except for the few minor variations shown in Appendix I to Part I of this volume. Even the recension thereof found to have been commented upon by a series of Kasmirian Paddits commencing from Siddha Vasu
