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啶�啷佮ぐ啶距ぃ啶�啷� - [pur膩峁嘺m - ] PURANA
[Vol. XII, No. 2
later-on-added (or spurious) matter from our constituted text,
which we might perhaps, to some degree of certainty, claim to call
as the oldest text.
It is not, however, possible now, for the manuscripts written
earlier than the oldest manuscripts now available to us are perhaps,
irretrievably lost. In such a state of affairs why then should we
exclude from our constituted text only those additions which may
be known to us as such on the basis of the meagre and insufficient
manuscript-evidence, and allow all the passages which might also
have been earlier additions introduced at some unknown stage of
the growth of the Pur膩峁嘺 an honourable place in our constituted
text ? These remarks may be labelled as uncritical, but they may
perhaps conform more to our Pur膩峁嘺-tradition.
In my humble opinion all such additions should also be inclu-
ded in the constituted text. We should, however, use some device
to indicate that as they are not uniformly available in all the
versions they might be treated as belonging to the textual tradition
of those versions and manuscripts only in which they are available;
but care should be taken to ascertain that they had not been
inserted in some common exemplar of those manuscripts from a
different source by the scribe or reader of that exemplar.
3. Sometimes there are found two parallel versions of some
portion or portions of the text of a Pur膩峁嘺 in its manuscripts; the
one version being shorter which is available in some of its manuse-
cripts, while the other version is longer which is also available in
the other set of manuscripts of the same Pur膩峁嘺. In the case of
the Kurma-Pur膩峁嘺 this kind of of double version is found in its
manuscripts in several places of the text. On account of the
different wordings and construction of these two versions they can
not be amalgamated with each other. Both these versions-shorter
and the longer-should be accepted as authentic, i. e. as acknow-
ledged and assimilated by the two different manuscript-traditions
of the Pur膩峁嘺, althouh the longer version may be a later one
(which, however, is not always the case).
4. Sometimes a text in almost all the manuscripts is wrong
or incomplete and does not, in some cases, also tally with the
preceding and the following text. I have already referred in these
pages to such texts in the Vamana and the Kurma Pur膩峁嘺s. In such
cases the additional line or sloka available in some single version or