Introduction li Poona, The textual variants of this edition are marked in the present edition as N denoting the publisher Nirnayasagar Press.¹ K-Srimad Bhagavadgita with the commentary by Mahamaheśvara Abhinavagupta: Ed. with notes by Räjänaka Pandit Lakshman Raina Brahmachari, Sri- nagar, Kashmir, 1933. The editor informs us that he had made use of some three Sarada MSS of Kashmir origin and gives us some details about them. This edition had gone out of print long ago and was hard to find anywhere. Hence at the instance of Prof. K. Satchidananda Murthy, the then Vice-Chancellor, S. V. University, I requested Dr. Karan Singh, for- mer Maharaja of Kashmir and the then M. P., for help. Dr. Karan Singh was good enough to arrange to get me a photostat copy of the edition preserved in his library in Jammu. The variants in the text main and the variants noted in the footnotes of this edition are referred to in the present edition as K (denoting Kashmir origin of the edition) and K(n) respectively. XI Regarding the present edition, the following may be observed:- (A) The Bhagavadgita, Text We saw above that both the MSS at our disposal do not help us in deciding the BG text which Ag. might have had. Further the GS is very brief and leaves many verses untouched. Therefore the BG text of Pandit Lakshman Raina's edition is generally 1. I am unable to ascertain whether these two MSS are th the same as S and B. 8
