अणुभाष्य (महाप्रभु वल्लभाचार्य - शुद्धाद्वैत वेदान्त ब्रह्मसूत्र महाभाष्य प्रकाश टीका सहित)

( 13 ) Mr. Magnalal S'astri M. A. of the Deccan College at Poona has published recently the भावार्थ's portion of Aṇu Bhashya with the commentary प्रदीप of Itchharama Bhattaji. The प्रदीप is a great help in understanding the literal text of the Aṇu Bhashya. In the Bombay Sanskrit Series is published Aṇu Bhashya under the editorship of S'āstri S'rīdhar Pathak of Poona 1921 A. D. This edition claims to be a critical one, but a comparison of its text with that of the Benares edition would show that the claim cannot be maintained. In good many places the text is incorrect and unreliable. Even instances are there where सूत्रs are not correctly printed. Generally we should have expected the Bombay Sanskrit Series to maintain a high standard, and we are disappointed to see that it is not maintained in this edition, in spite of the materials available to the learned S'āstri. The present attempt to publish the Aṇu Bhashya with Bhashya-Prakash together with the rare commentary रश्मि is undertaken under the following circumstances. In spite of four or five editions of Aṇu Bhashya, we felt that the text of Aṇu Bhashya had not been done justice, which was due to it. We have been fortunate to secure the original copy of the भाष्यप्रकाश of S'ri Purushottamaji in his own hand, and comparing the same with the Benares edition, we felt that the literary acumen displayed in the original, was lost in the printed text. S'rī Purushottamaji was a great master. His critical faculty was unparalleled. His love of accuracy was so great, that the quotations made by him, from the works of other writers, when compared with the printed texts of those works, were invariably found by us, to be at an advantage in point of accuracy. From his manuscript we find him putting a point, where we use a coma, for a full stop he makes one stroke, and for a complete idea he puts two perpendicular strokes. When he wants to begin a fresh paragraph he puts two perpendicular strokes, and leaving a space of half an inch, he puts another two strokes, and then begins a fresh paragraph. Important words are coloured with red senna. S'rī Purushottamaji has revised this manuscript at least three to four times. Where he thought that an addition was necessary, he would affix a fine slip and rewrite over it. Where the angle mark was above the line, we had to look for the addition on the top of the page on the margin, counting the number of lines mentioned at the end of the addition. Where the angle was below the line, we had similarly to look for the addition at the bottom of the page. S'rī Purushottamaji was a great authority in the Sampradaya, and the copies of the भाष्यप्रकाश became current at once in the Sampradaya. The result was that some of the copies which were made before the revison by S'rī Purushottamaji, did not contain the same. Even our original copy misses the latest revision, because after it was copied fair, it seems the learned author once more revised the same. Yogi Gopeswarji had before him the original referred to above. It would seem, he had not before him the copy of Bhashya Prakās'a containing the last revision, because we have invariably found the latest addition not commented upon in रश्मि, even in those places where an explanation would seem extremely necessary. Such a copy of the भाष्यप्रकाश has also been fortunately available to us. S'rī Purusho- ttamaji has studied all the then existing systems of Vedanta in a critical method. His criticism against other systems are very fair, and a student of Aṇu Bhashya 1533