Transcriber’s Notes
Inconsistent punctuation has been silently corrected.
Obvious misspellings have been silently corrected, and the following corrections made to the text. Other spelling and hyphenation variations have not been modified.
[Page 412, section 15] and the other to that of the learned -> and the other to that of the unlearned [Page 413, section 19] in mountainous -> in the mountainous [Page 437, section 66] favourite females -> favourite of females [Page 634, section 40] full of inequity -> full of iniquity [Page 680, section 22] the like -> like the [Page 715, section 53] unvisionary -> visionary [Page 816, section 16] bring though -> even though [Page 930, section 29] very thick and lean -> very thin and lean
Also, some of the shortcomings of the LPP edition have been corrected by referencing other printings:
Page [434] Missing line "remove it by your subjection to ignorance and idleness" was inserted. Page [687] in the printed book is a copy of page 887 (where it belongs). The missing page 687 has been supplied from the Bharatiya edition. (It is the start of chapter LXI: On Birth, Death and Existence (verse 1-9)). This error has been reproduced in the Parimal ed. because this is based on a scanning of an edition with this error. Page [688] and [888] were switched in the printed book. Page [886] verse 17-18 were missing. Page [918] verse 8 was missing.
Angle brackets: <...> have been used by the transcriber to indicate light editing of the text to insert missing words.
The spelling of Sanskrit words are normalized to some extent, including correct/addition of accents where necessary. Note that the author uses á, í, ú to indicate long vowels. This notation has not been changed.
The third Devanagari character in [footnote 7] is illegible in the text. It has been inserted from an alternate text, although it appears that the original of this text may in fact have included a typo.
The LPP edition (1999) which has been scanned for this ebook, is of poor quality, and in some cases text was missing. Where possible, the missing/unclear text has been supplied from another edition, which has the same typographical basis (both editions are photographical reprints of the same source, or perhaps one is a copy of the other): Bharatiya Publishing House, Delhi 1978.