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PREFACE.
traneous matter, it would be possible to reduce the size of
the work to reasonable dimensions, without falling into the
error of publishing garbled or insufficient extracts. This
scheme was graciously approved of by the Council of the
Asiatic Society, and the first and second parts of the Selec-
tions appeared in the Bibliotheca Inclica, in 1885 and 1886.
The principles on which the extracts have been made and
arranged are on the whole self-evident. The six Commen-
taries have been made to succeed one another in the order
of their supposed dates, the two leading Commentaries of
Medhatithi and Govindaraja coming in for a particularly
large share of the available space. Special attention has
naturally been directed to those points on which the Com-
mentators differ, at the same time it was thought advisable
in many cases to give as full an array as possible of the
analogous views put forth by several Commentators, in order
to decide which way the main current of opinion lies. This
is especially the case as regards the philosophical texts of
the first chapters. Among the various incidental statements
of the Commentators, those have been quoted most fre-
quently which tend to throw light on the various readings
sanctioned by, or known to, them. In the case of easy texts,
the extracts have generally been made as brief as possible,
in order to gain space for the difficult ones.
The second fasciculus had hardly left the press in Cal-
cutta, when appeared in Bombay, in 1886, the Hon’ble V. N.
Mandlik’s voluminous edition of Manu with the Commen-
taries of Medhatithi, Sarvajnanarayana, Kulluka, Raghava-
nanda, Nandana, Ramachandra, and Govindaraja.1 Here,
then, was a complete edition of all the Commentaries
epitomized in the present work, excepting only the insigni-
ficant Kasmir Commentary, which omission was made up
1 Manava Dharmas&stra with the Commentaries of Medhatithi, etc., in
two volumes 4to., and Govindaraja’s Commentary in one volume 4to.
PREFACE.
traneous matter, it would be possible to reduce the size of
the work to reasonable dimensions, without falling into the
error of publishing garbled or insufficient extracts. This
scheme was graciously approved of by the Council of the
Asiatic Society, and the first and second parts of the Selec-
tions appeared in the Bibliotheca Inclica, in 1885 and 1886.
The principles on which the extracts have been made and
arranged are on the whole self-evident. The six Commen-
taries have been made to succeed one another in the order
of their supposed dates, the two leading Commentaries of
Medhatithi and Govindaraja coming in for a particularly
large share of the available space. Special attention has
naturally been directed to those points on which the Com-
mentators differ, at the same time it was thought advisable
in many cases to give as full an array as possible of the
analogous views put forth by several Commentators, in order
to decide which way the main current of opinion lies. This
is especially the case as regards the philosophical texts of
the first chapters. Among the various incidental statements
of the Commentators, those have been quoted most fre-
quently which tend to throw light on the various readings
sanctioned by, or known to, them. In the case of easy texts,
the extracts have generally been made as brief as possible,
in order to gain space for the difficult ones.
The second fasciculus had hardly left the press in Cal-
cutta, when appeared in Bombay, in 1886, the Hon’ble V. N.
Mandlik’s voluminous edition of Manu with the Commen-
taries of Medhatithi, Sarvajnanarayana, Kulluka, Raghava-
nanda, Nandana, Ramachandra, and Govindaraja.1 Here,
then, was a complete edition of all the Commentaries
epitomized in the present work, excepting only the insigni-
ficant Kasmir Commentary, which omission was made up
1 Manava Dharmas&stra with the Commentaries of Medhatithi, etc., in
two volumes 4to., and Govindaraja’s Commentary in one volume 4to.