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

EDITOR'S NOTE. After the publication of the first two Pādas of the Adhyāya III of the Aṇu Bhāshya with Bhashya-Prakās'a and Ras'mi, we have been fortunate in the further acquisition of manuscripts by the Grace of Lord Kṛishṇa. In the introduction to Pāda I we stated that the Bhāshya Prakās'a the original of which in the author's own hand is in our possession missed the final revision made by the author himself, and the additional portions found in some copies of of the Prakās'a were of the authorship of S'rī Purushottamaji himself even though not found in the original manuscript. This inference was based merely on our familiarity with the style of Purushottamaji, which was apparent in those passages. Our diffidence was the more because the learned author of Ras'mi had not chosen to write his commentary on those passages. Gopes'varaji has based his Ras'mi on the original manuscript of Prakās'a which came in his possession through his father Gokulotsavaji who was adopted in the Purusho- ttamaji's house by Mahāraṇi Vahuji at Surat. Gopes'varaji would seem to look upon the passages of Prakās'a not found in the above original with an eye of suspicion, and we find him in the Pāda III throwing doubt on those passages of Prakās'a on the ground of their not being found in the original in his possession. In his Ras'mi also he omits commenting on those passages. This decision of Gopes'varaji was rather unfortunate. As will be presently seen these passages of Prakās'a are Purushottamaji's own, and Gopes'varaji's omission to comment on them has increased our difficulties in approaching those passages for a thorough understanding. It was rather a happy coincidence that in basing the text of the Prakās'a for our edition we did not follow Gopes'varaji's view. We always felt that those additional passages of the Prakās'a, though not found in the original, were of the authorship of Purushottamaji. Our surmise was that Purushottamaji's original must have been got copied fair, and a final revision on the same must have been made by Purushottamaji himself. Thus these additional passages were due to a final revision and as such ought to be included in the authentic text of the Prakās'a. Hence we have acted accordingly from the very beginning. Our conjecture as to the final revision has happily turned out to be true. Through the kindness of Mr. Natavaralal Iccharam Desai B. A. of the famous Gujarati Press we have been able to secure that very copy of the Prakās'a in which Purushottamaji has made additions and revisions in his own hand and which are not found in the original wholly written in his own hand. Except these additions and revisions the rest of this manuscript is written in neat hand- writing by a scribe. This neatly written portion contains the whole of Purusho- ttamaji's Prakās'a original, while the additions and revisions seem to have been made by Purushottamaji himself in his own hand when he finally revised his Bhashya-Prakās'a. The text of the Prakās'a of the present Pāda is based on the original so far as its text was common with the above-mentioned fair copy and for portions not found in the above-mentioned original, it is based on the