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NOTE ON THE TRANSLITERATION OF SANSKRIT
The system of diacritical marks used in the Bibliographies and the Index (with square brackets), as well as in the English translations of original French and Russian texts, does not strictly follow any one specific scholar, to the exclusion of all others. While adhering to a very large extent to Sir Monier-Williams’ Sanskrit-English Dictionary, as for instance in the case of the Anusvâra, the transliteration adopted includes forms introduced by other Sanskrit scholars as well, being therefore of a selective nature.
It should also be noted that the diacritical mark for a long “a” was in the early days a circumflex, and therefore all of H.P.B.’s writings embody this sound in the form of “â.” No change has been made from this earlier notation to its more modern form of the “macron,” or line over the “a.” Such a change would have necessitated too many alterations, and almost certainly would have produced confusion; therefore the older usage has been adhered to throughout.
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Realizing that it will assist the earnest student to have a list of selected editions of Oriental Works, most of which are not readily obtainable, the following Bibliography has been prepared. No attempt has been made to include all the known editions. Those mentioned below represent, therefore, only some of the most noteworthy publications. In a few instances, no definite information could be secured. Translations are in the English language, unless otherwise stated. Certain serial publications of Oriental writings are indicated by italicized capital letters following the editions. Many of the works referred to may be consulted for a short time by means of Inter-Library Loans. Institutions and Libraries where such works may be obtained, are indicated within square brackets.
The Key to the Abbreviations used is as follows:
Ed.—stands for Editions of the original text in Devanagari characters.
Roman—indicates the text to be in Roman characters.
AOS—Library of the American Oriental Society, New Haven, Conn.
BM—Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Mass.
C—Columbia University Library, New York, N.Y.
Ch—University of Chicago Library, Chicago, Ill.
Cl—Cleveland Public Library, Cleveland, Ohio.
Cong—Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
H—Harvard University Library, Cambridge, Mass.
JHU—Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.
NYP—New York Public Library, New York City, N.Y.
P—Princeton University Library, Princeton, N.J.
Pea—Peabody Institute, Baltimore, Md.
UP—University of Pennsylvania Library, Philadelphia, Pa.
Y—Yale University Library, New Haven, Conn.
Bibl. Ind.—Bibliotheca Indica: a collection of original works (in Sanskrit, Hindi, Persian, and Arabic) publ. by the Asiatic Society of Bengal. Calcutta, Benares, Tungoo, London and Hertford, 1845—. Old and New Series, 4to and 8vo.
HOS—Harvard Oriental Series, edited, with the co-operation of various scholars, by Charles Rockwell Lanman. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1891—.
SBE—Sacred Books of the East: translated by various Oriental scholars, and edited by F. Max Müller. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1879-90.
414 *Abodasura, Book of. More correctly Abodah farah, meaning “idolatrous worship,” one of the treatises of the Talmud, belonging to the order Nezikin; it treats of the laws regulating the conduct of the Jews towards idolatry and idolaters.