Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c13.10
Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c13.10
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c13.10
The genuineness of the text is established with no less certainty by numerous commentaries in Sanscrit, besides a Persian version of it. Those commentaries comprise a perpetual gloss, in which every passage of the original is noticed and interpreted: and every word of it is repeated and explained. A comparison of them authenticates the text where they agree; and would serve, where they did not, to detect any alterations of it that might have taken place, or variations, if any had crept in, subsequent to the composition of the earliest of them. A careful collation of several commentaries,⁴ and of three copies of the original work, has been made; and it will be seen in the notes to the translation how unimportant are the discrepancies.