A Vedic Concordance c5.2

c5.2

General scope of these explanations.—Since this Concordance has to do with no less than one hundred and nineteen different works, it is, in the first place, obvious that a complete list of those works should be given, in a systematic order and with proper bibliographical descriptions of the editions used, and that the bibliographic list should be followed by an alphabetic list of the abbreviations by which the several works are designated. This list of abbreviations is printed just before the beginning of the main body of the work. In the second place, while it is probable that the several more or less arbitrary devices employed in reporting the variants will be readily understood by every Vedic scholar, it is nevertheless possible that uncertainty of one kind or another should arise in some mind; and I have accordingly thought it worth while to explain these devices systematically and in connection with a few illustrative examples.