विष्णु स्मृति (वैष्णव धर्मशास्त्र - नन्दपण्डित कृत वैजयन्ती टीका सहित सटीक)

PREFACE. 5
corrections subjoined at the end of this Preface (page 7) will
be found to be due.
The Critical Notes given under the text will show how the
principles explained above have been worked out. They contain all
the vv. ll. of the MSS. and of C¹,² excepting palpable clerical mis-
takes and misprints, and a few slight omissions, and those among
Aparárka's vv. ll. which agree with one of the traditional readings.
By quoting all his and his brethren's vv. ll., interesting as they
are, the apparatus criticus, already extensive, would have been
swelled beyond reasonable proportions.
In making the extracts from the Commentary, which have
been added at the foot of each page, I have aimed above all at
brevity, giving for the most part no more than what seemed re-
quired in order to justify the way in which the more difficult pas-
sages have been rendered in the translation, and omitting all the
extraneous matter, to which the great bulk of the Vaijayantí, just-
ly called an entire "body or digest of law" by Colebrooke,* is
mainly due. The numerous quotations from other law-books, in
particular, have nearly all been left out, because full references to the
analogous passages in the Smṛitis of Mânu (M.), Yájñavalkya (Y.),
Apastamba and Gautama, all of which are generally acces-
sible through the medium of reliable editions and trans-
lations and are very important for a right understanding of the
present work, have been given in the footnotes to the translation.†
The Anukramaṇiká has been taken from V³, with modifica-
tions and additions.
The first Index contains all the more remarkable terms occur-
ring in the Vishṇu-smṛiti, especially those terms (including a
number of epithets of Vishṇu and of remarkable compounds),

• Misc. Essays, II, p. 487.
  † The Mantras are as a rule not explained by Nandapaṇḍita. For
  some of them Devapâla's interpretations in the Kâṭhakagṛihya-bhâ-
  shya have been quoted.