Guest guest Posted January 28, 2004 Report Share Posted January 28, 2004 [Text 449354 from CIS] Dear devotees, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! Two questions give me no rest for a long time - what is the proper way to count the verses in the scriptures? I've heard that the number of syllables in whole scripture when divided by 32 (the number of syllables in sloka) gives the true number of verses in it. But what is the reason for dividing by 32 if there are so many different meters even in one writing? In that case what is the use of verse numeration in sanskrit text (e.g. it is said that there are 18 000 verses in Bhagavatam, but I read that some devotees have counted only 12 000 with our usual numeration)? It seems that the number of verses is not the same which can we see on the pages. Am I right? And the second one is how the words in devanagari transliteration are separated. I mean that sometimes sanskrit text may have one whole line of symbols and its english transliteration has a few words, either united with hyphen or separated. What is the common principle for separating uniting words while transliterating? Can anybody, kindly give any explanation on this subject? Maybe somebody has sastric statements for this? Aspiring to become your servant bh. Konstantin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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