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The six sandarbhas are divided into four categories. The first four volumes deal with sambandha-jnana, or metaphysics. This volume deals with abhidheya-jnana, or the prescriptions of devotional activity. The sixth volume, Priti-sandarbha, deals with the prayojana-tattva, or ultimate goal.

The original GGM edition was based on the Yadavpur edition. This second edition, which has thousands of corrections, emendations and improvements, is based on the Puridas edition (P) of 1951.

It should be further noted here that we were fortunate enough to get hold of Pandit Kanai Lal Adhikari Panchatirtha's copy of the above P edition, which he had annotated and corrected. So some of his later emendations have been incorporated here.

Manuscripts used by Puridas (P):

1. ka – śrī-vṛndāvana-dhāma-vāsi-śrīmad-vanamālilāla-gosvāmi-mahodayasya granthāgāra-rakṣitā kara-lipiḥ |
2. kha – śrī-vṛndāvana-keśi-ghaṭṭa-ṭhora-nivāsi-śrīmad-vaiṣṇava-caraṇa-dāsa-mahāśaya-sakāśāt prāptā kara-lipiḥ |
3. ga – ḍhākā-viśvavidyālaya-granthāgārasthā-2396E saṁkhyaka- kara-lipiḥ
4. gha – varāha-nagara-śrī-gaurāṅga-grantha-mandirastha 417 saṅkhyaka kara-lipiḥ
5. ṅa – baṅgīya-sāhitya-pariṣat-sthitā 1443 saṅkhyaka-kara-lipiḥ
6. ca – śrī-gauḍa-maṇḍalataḥ prāptā kara-lipiḥ
7. cha – 1307 baṅgābde śrī-śyāmalāla-gosvāmi-sampādito granthaḥ
8. ja – 438 caitanyābde muraśidābāda-jelāntargata-kuñja-ghāṭa-sthita-śrī-mādhukarī-kāryālayataḥ śrī-vāmā-caraṇa-vasunā prakāśito granthaḥ
9. jha – 438-tama-caitanyābde śrī-gauḍīya-maṭhataḥ prakāśito granthaḥ
10. ña – 451=tama- caitanyābde śrī-navadvīpa-vāsinā śrī-prāṇa-gopāla-gosvāmi-sampādito granthaḥ

To which we add
11. ya – (ed.) Chinmayi Chatterjee, Kolkata: Yadavpur University, 1980.

N.B. This edition does not include an exhaustive examination of Puridas' variant readings, many of which are trivial. A future edition will examine these readings more closely.

Added by: Jagat
Credits: Jagat
Text version: 2.00 (legend)
Keywords: Puridas, Sat-sandarbha, Bhakti-Sandarbha, Jiva-Gosvamin, Jiva, Goswami, Bhagavata-sandarbha, abhidheya

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