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愛xiや ' r ÅRYABHATI YA fullness and accuracy and designated, respectively, as A, B and C. In version II, the less inflated exemplar has been taken as the first subversion and designated D, and the more inflated one as the second subversion and designated E. 2. Version I, being the basic text, has been taken as the primary basis of the present critical edition. When the readings of its exemplars A, B and C, differ from one another, those readings in one or more of these, which accord with the readings in version II are adopted. 3. Version II comes into play, mainly, in filling the gaps and supplying the haplographical or other omissions in version I. 4. Manuscripts D and E of version II have been effectively used also where passages in A, B, C, are, apparently, erratic, confused or corrupt. In such instances, preference has generally been given to that reading of A, B or C which accords with or seems to give rise to the readings in D and/or E. 5. As an extension of principle 4 above, in such rare instances where the readings in D and/or E seem to be the original ones, as apparent from the context or the style of the author, those readings are given preference in constituting the critical text. 6. In a small number of cases where the readings of all the mss. were unsatisfactory or there was a common gap or uniform lacuna, emendations have been suggested editorially, these emendations being given within square brackets. 7. There has been instances where the reading of a textual verse in an exemplar is different from that explained in the commentary. In such cases, that reading which has been accepted in the commentary has been uniformly adopted. Thus, the text of the Aryabhatiya presented in this edition can be taken to be that version followed by the commentator Suryadeva Yajvan. 8. The variant readings occurring in the different manuscripts have been duly presented as footnotes below the critical text of the kārikā-s and the commentary. All pertinent manuscript peculiarities 1. For such editorial emendations, see p. 25, line 6, 51.11, 113.12, 126.3, 153.5.