Footnotes
p. iii
1 Their
titles here follow:
"The Aphorisms of the Sánkhya Philosophy of Kapila, with
Illustrative Extracts from the Commentaries. [Book I.] Printed for the
use of the Benares College, by order of Govt. N. W. P. Allahabad:
Printed at the Presbyterian Mission Press. Rev. L. G. HAY,
Sup't. 1852."
"The Aphorisms of the Sánkhya Philosophy, by Kapila, with
Illustrative Extracts from the Commentary. Books II., III., & IV.
In Sanskrit and English, Printed for the use of the Benares College,
by order of Govt. N. W. P. (1st Edition, 550 Copies:— Price
12 annas.) Allahabad: Printed at the Presbyterian Mission
Press. Rev. L. G. HAY, Superintendent.
1854."
"The Aphorisms of the Sánkhya Philosophy, by Kapila, with
Illustrative Extracts from the Commentary by Vijnána-Bhikshu. Books
V. & VI. Sanskrit and English. Translated by James R. Ballantyne,
LL.D., Principal of the Govt. College, Benares. Printed for the use of
the Benares College, by order of Govt. N. W. P . (1st Edition, 550 Copies:—Price
12 annas.) Allahabad: Printed at the Presbyterian Mission
Press. Rev. L. G. HAY, Sup't. 1856."
2 Occupying
Fasciculi 32 and 81 of the New Series of the Bibliotheca Indica,
issued in 1862 and 1865. The proof-sheets of only 32 pages of the
whole, from the beginning, were read by Dr. Ballantyne; the rest, by
Professor Cowell.
The title of the abridged form runs: "The Sánkhya Aphorisms
of Kapila, with Extracts from Vijnána Bhiks[h]u's Commentary,"
&c. But this is a misrepresentation, as regards Book I., which
takes up 63 pages out of the total of 175. The expository matter in
that Book is derived, very largely, from other commentators than Vijnána.
p. iv
Vedánti Mahádeva mainly supplies it at the outset, and, towards the
end, well nigh exclusively, Aniruddha. Some share of it, however, will
not be traced; it having been furnished by one of Dr. Ballantyne's
pandits, whom I have repeatedly seen in the very act, as by his own
acknowledgment, of preparing his elucidations.
1 Many of
them, especially in Books II.-VI., rest on readings of the original
preferable to those which had been accepted.
Though not fully published till 1856, my edition of the Sánkkya-pravachana-bháshya,
its preface alone excepted, was in print as early as 1853; and Dr.
Ballantyne had a copy of it. A few arbitrarily chosen words apart, his
text, after Book I., is borrowed from it throughout, but with no
mention of the fact. My advice was unheeded, that he should profit by
the copious emendations which I had amassed and digested from better
manuscripts than those to which I at first had access. Greatly to his
disservice, he would not be induced even to look at them. It faring
the same with my typographical corrections, he has, here and there,
reproduced errors, more or less gross, which might easily have been
avoided. See, for specimens. pp. 197, 288, 357, 373, 374, 381, 390.
p. v
1 Nor has
attention been topically directed to sundry blemishes of idiom which
have been removed; as, for example, by the substitution of 'unless'
for 'without,' of 'in time' for 'through time,' of 'presently' for
'just,' and of 'between the two' for 'between both.'
2 "At
the time of his departure from India, in 1860, Dr. Ballantyne left
with me the MS. of his revised translation of the Sánkhya
Aphorisms," "Notice," in the Bibliotheca Indica, New
Series, No, 81.
3 For
details respecting these commentaries and their authors, see my Contribution
towards an Index to the Bibliography of the Indian Philosophical
Systems, or my Preface to the Sánkhya-sára.
p. vi
1 I once
had a second copy of this very rare work, bearing no date, but most
venerable in appearance. Like many of my manuscript treasures, it was
lent, and never found its way back to me.
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