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cxviii ⌊The fundamental copy of book xix. was made by Whitney from the saṁhitā-ms. Chambers, 115 = B. He appears to have copied the text first on the recto, without word-division, and using Roman letters, although applying to them the vertical and horizontal accent strokes as if to nāgarī; and afterwards to have written out the text on the opposite page, the verso of the preceding leaf, with word-division, and with accents marked in the usual European way. At xix. 27. 6 Whitney makes the note, "acc. from Paris ms. to the end of the book."—For book xx., the transcript was made from Chambers, 114 = Bp.c.⌋

⌊'''Collations made before publication of the text. The Berlin collations''' (first collations).—In this paragraph, only books i.-xix. are had in view, and codex B.″, as being a mere copy of B.′, is disregarded. From the table on p. ex, it appears that for books ii.-iv., x., and xix. there was only one ms. at Berlin, and so none available for collation. The first collation of book v. (since this was copied from Bp.2 = Chambers, 109) was made of course (see the table) from Bp. = Ch. 8. The first collation of the books copied from Bp. was made (also of course) from Bp.2: that is, the first collation of book i. was made with Ch. 117, and that of books vi.-ix. with Ch. 107. For books xi.-xviii. the collation was made of course with B. = Ch. 115.⌋

⌊The Paris and Oxford and London collations.—These, made in the months of March to July, 1853, were the last collations before the printing of the text. They were made in the order as named, and their sequence appears from the biographical sketch above, p. xliv.⌋

⌊Collations made after publication (that is, made in 1875 or later.)—Twenty years or more after the issue, in Feb. 1855, of the printed text of books i.-xix., were made the collations of the mss. enumerated below. See above, page xliv, and JAOS. x., p. cxviii.⌋

⌊Collation of the Haug, Roth, Tanjore, and Deccan mss.—The collation with the Haug mss., O. and Op., was made at Munich, in June and July, 1875. Then followed, at Tübingen, the collations with the mss. D. and T. and R.⌋

⌊The collation with the Bikaner ms., K.—This, as stated above, p. cxvi, was made by means of a list of doubtful readings sent by Whitney to Roth and reported upon.⌋

⌊Other contents of the Collation-Book.—The various memoranda (mentioned above, p. cxvii, ¶3) are usually written on the blank page opposite the hymn or verse concerned. They include the excerpts from the Major Anukramaṇī, the citations of concordant passages gathered from an exceedingly comprehensive study of the other Vedic texts, very full