The Personality of India: Pre- and Proto-historic Foundation of India and Pakistan c16.s1.13

c16.s1.13

Before turning to the contents, let us dispose of the textual problem. While elaborate precautions like *Pada patha* (text of independent phonetically unmodified forms of words), *Krama patha* (every word of the pada patha occurs twice, being pronounced after the preceding word, and before the following) and indexes, were devised to preserve the textual purity of the Vedic texts, no care was taken to preserve the puranic texts.