A History of Sanskrit Literature c13.15

c13.15

A third edition, printed in Telugu characters, was published in four volumes at Madras in 1855–60. It includes the *Harivaṁça* and extracts from Nīlakaṇṭha's commentary. This edition represents a distinct South Indian recension, which seems to differ from that of the North about as much as the three recensions of the *Rāmāyaṇa* do from one another. Both recensions are of about equal length, omissions in the first being compensated by others in the second. Sometimes one has the better text, sometimes the other.