Query

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The relevant section of the style sheet says:

 

 

"Titles of cantos are capitalized even with ordinal numbers:

 

Canto Ten

Tenth Canto

 

But for plural they go lower case:

 

first and second cantos

cantos one through ten"

 

So "Eleventh Canto" is correct.

 

Hare Krsna

 

ys, kbdg

 

 

> Dear Devotees,

>

> Hare Krishna. Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila

> Prabhupada.

>

> In my proofreading work I came across the following: "In the Eleventh

> Canto of Srimad-Bhagavatam, Krsna tells Uddhava of six types of deities."

>

> It seems to me that the text should read: "In the eleventh canto..." I

> looked up the latest BBT style sheet under the heading "Capitalization of

> book parts" for confirmation, but I was not able to get the answer.

> "Eleventh Canto" is not the title of the canto. "Canto Eleven" is. So now

> what do I do? Lower case or upper case?

>

> Thank you. Hare Krishna.

> Your servant,

> Visakha Priya dasi