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Jan., 1969] METRES OF CLASSICAL POETRY IN PUR膧峁咥S 13 (246, 53). Also Matsyapur膩峁嘺 154, 9, 10 and its parallel Padma-
pur膩峁嘺 V, 40, 12 correspond to the above quotation from the point
of view of their content as well as the metre S膩lin墨. But R膩m膩-
nuja could hardly have had this passage in view, because the
last line of the quotation is missing here. Moreover the context
is about a eulogy which the gods offer, not to Visnu, but to
Brahm膩. Only after a long search, the full quotation was found
in the Brahm膩峁囜笉apur膩峁嘺 1, 5, 107, and further, almost in similar
wording, also in the Vayupur膩峁嘺 9, 120 and in the 艣ivapura峁嘺
VII, 1, 12, 76. But it is remarkable how less accurately
the text is transmitted in the first two places. Of the obvious
scribal errors only two may be mentioned in the V膩yupur膩峁嘺
the Nominative dyaur next to the Accusative murdhanam and in
the Br膩hma峁囜笉apur膩峁嘺 the complete omission of dyaur and its
subsequent replacement by vai. R膩m膩nuja has preserved-not
only in this case-the wording more faithfully than the original
texts. An example from the vedic literature is Atharvaveda-
samhit膩 8, 9, 10 of the Paippal膩da-school. In the T眉bingen
Manuscript and in the editions based on it the passage is trans-
mitted full of mistakes and would have remained unintelligible,
had not R膩m膩nuja recorded the wording correctly in his interpre-
tation of Brahmasutra II, 3, 42.
The present work is divided into a table of the employed
metres and a register of the places of their occurrence. In the
table the consulted works are given in the Latin alphabetical order
from top to bottom on the left hand side. It contains all the
great Pur膩峁嘺s whose number is given in the lists, mostly as 18,
but which actually amounts to 19. In the Padmapur膩峁嘺 (IV,
111, 90-94) the Vayu is omitted and in the Matsyapur膩峁嘺 (53,
11-59) the Sivapur膩峁嘺 is omitted. The Kurma-Pur膩峁嘺 (1, 1, 13-
15) maintains the number 18, but mentions the Vayupur膩峁嘺 as
the 18th and the Brahma峁囜笉apur膩峁嘺 as the 19th. We may spare
ourselves the justification of the number 18 through the argument
that either the Sivapur膩峁嘺 or the Brahma峁囜笉apur膩峁嘺 is regarded
as "a Pur膩峁嘺 proclaimed by Vayu", because the editions of the
texts of three works, and thus of all the 19 great Pur膩峁嘺s, are