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Rh 45; 7. 26; xi. 3. 50, we should have ix. 6. 3$1$, 5$1$; 7. 1$26$; xi. 3. 3$1$. In books xv. and xvi. I should reckon the anuvāka as determining the limits of each group of paryāyas (p. cxxx); and thus, for example, instead of the now usual xv. 7. 1; 8. 1; 17. 1; xvi. 5. 1, we should have xv. 1. 7$1$; 2. 1$2$; 2. 10$1$; xvi. 2. 1$1$. The tables on pages 771 and 793 may serve for conversion-tables as between the proposed method and the Berlin-Bombay method.⌋

⌊The merits of this method are clear from what has been said: it avoids ignoring the paryāyas of viii— xiii. and the groups of xv.-xvi., and avoids the inconsistency of the Berlin method; it maintains the recognition of the uniformity of books viii.-xi. as books of ten hymns. each (p. 611, line 25); and it assimilates all references to paryāya-text in a manner accordant with the facts, and shows at a glance that they refer to paryāya-passages. Moreover, it avoids the necessity of recognizing hymns of less than 20 verses for division III. (p. cxlv); and by it one is not inconvenienced in finding passages as cited by the older method.⌋

⌊Differences of verse-numeration.—The differences of hymn-numeration, as is clear from the foregoing, involve certain differences of verse-numeration also; but besides these latter, there are certain other differences of verse-numeration occasioned by the adherence of the Bombay editor to the prescriptions of the Anukramaṇīs. They have been fully treated in the introductions to the books concerned; but require mention here because they affect the verse-totals of the tables considered in the discussion (pages clvii, clix) of the structure of the text. The five paryāya-hymns, affected are given in the first line of the subjoined table, and in the second are set references to the pages of this work where the Bombay totals are given. The third line gives the totals of avasānarcas for the Bombay edition, and the fourth those for the Berlin edition, and the fifth the differences. It may be well to remind the reader, that, in its proper place in the text, the second paryāya of xi. 3 is printed, both by RW. and by SPP. (at vol. iii., pages 66-83), as 18 numbered subdivisions; but that the Bombay editor prints it again (just after p. 356 of the same vol.), this time as 72 avasānarcas, as required by the Anukr. The matter is fully explained by me, pages 628-9. The totals for xi. 3 in the one ed. are 31 + 18 + 7 = 56, and in the other 31 + 72 + 7 = 110, a difference of 54. The sum of the plus items is 188.