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For the recension of Gaṅgādhar there exists—so far as my knowledge goes—not a single MS. authority, while all MSS. that I have been able to examine, and all old commentaries, at present known, support the recension as given in the published editions of the two legal treatises and the Agni Purāṇa.¹ These are: Professor Stenzler’s edition of the Yājñavalkya Dharmaśāstra (London, 1849), verses 84–90 of the third chapter (adhyāya), on pp. 89, 90 (translated on pp. 98, 99); Professor Jolly’s edition of the Viṣṇu Smṛti in the Bibliotheca Indica (Calcutta, 1881), clauses 55–79 of the 96th section, on pp. 196, 197 (translated in the Sacred Books of the East, vol. vii, pp. 283–5); Dr. Rajendralal Mitra’s edition of the Agni Purāṇa, in the Bibliotheca Indica (Calcutta, 1879), verses 27 b–33 of the 369th chapter, on pp. 308–9 of the third volume. The MSS. (twelve and eight respectively) which support the published recensions contained in the Institutes of Vishnu and the Agni Purāṇa have been already enumerated in the preceding paragraph. It remains to enumerate the MSS. of the Law-book of Yājñavalkya which I have examined. There are fifteen of these, and they all support the published recension. They are the following: