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most catalogue descriptions of Bhartrhari MSS. Finally, the southernmost
archetype [YTGM and X] shows so much variability within a supposedly
rigid framework of paddhati divisions that it is preferable to give it a
separate chart rather than use the general chart with its alphabetical order;

3. 2. Uses of the chart. The chart enables MSS to be grouped together
into smaller units, the smallest being the version, which means at least
two MSS which contain the same slokas in the same order, but for explicable
variation. These fall naturally together into four archetypes, themsleves
grouped into the two recensions N and S. Naturally, the MSS defining a
version must be separted to an extent which suffices to preclude their
being direct copies of each other. It might seem that a work in which the total
number of stanzas is supposed to be 300 would hardly allow sufficient
variation for such refined division, but as a matter of fact there certainly
exist versions which have not as yet been determined from the 98 sources
charted by me and which need the collection of still more MS evidence.
The usefulness of the version classification is that readings generally fall
into these classes also, while any well-established version can often be
located geographically with some accuracy, not only by finds of the MSS but
Whenever a MS of
by their colophons, vernacularisms, and scribe's errors.
a given version is copied in territory belonging to some other version,
The versions thus
contamination usually occurs from the local text.
provide a most useful frame of reference in what would otherwise have
been haphazard collections.

INTRODUCTION

The total evidence may be presented in a greatly simplified stemma
codicum as follows:

Į b

A B с

[Ur-Bhartrhari]

Ur-Satakatraya

N- The Northern Recension

- poster

(Vedantic recension)
10th century?

O [single defective codex]

I J

S The Southern Recension
by logical rearrangement]

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