The History of Indian Literature c10.7

c10.7

P. 43, note ³². Max Müller's issue of the text alone of the Ṛik has now appeared in a second edition (London, 1877). *Saṃhitá-páṭha* and *pada-páṭha* are here printed on opposite pages. Respecting the latter it has to be remarked that, as in Müller's previous editions, so again in this one the so-called *galitas* are in no way marked, the text which a particular passage shows the first time it occurs being uniformly simply repeated, without any reference to what is done in the MSS. themselves in these cases. This is all the more surprising as, after I had pointed out this defect, in my review of the last volume of his large edition in the *Lit. Cent. Blatt*, 17th April 1875, Müller himself, in an article which appeared in the same periodical a year and a half later (16th December 1876) fully recognised the critical importance of the *galitas*.—Aufrecht's edition has also been reprinted (Bonn, 1877): the preface (comp. desideratum at note 28) contains a variety of critical remarks.—Complete translations of the Ṛik-Saṃhitá, by Alfred Ludwig (Prag, 1876) and Hermann Grassmann (Leipzig, 1876–77) have appeared.—Very meritorious, also, is the edition of the Ṛik-Saṃhitá which is appearing in monthly numbers at Bombay, under the title ‘Vedárthayatna,’ with English and Mahráṭhí translation, as well as with Mahráṭhí commentary: the latest No. brings it down to i. 100. The name of the excellent editor, Shankar Paṇḍit, is an open secret.—Lastly, there remains to be mentioned M. Haug’s *Vedische Räthselfragen und Räthselsprüche* (Ṛik, i. 164, 1876).