Guest guest Posted October 11, 2004 Report Share Posted October 11, 2004 > They have completed the exercise and discovered that there are only > 14094 verses in the BBT published version of Srimad Bhagavatam. Did you count the verses in anustup meter, as appears to be the proper way to count? This is from an old COM text, quoting the Tattva Sandarbha: "According to the Matsya, Visnu and Skanda Puranas and the Narada Pan- caratra, Srimad Bhagavatam should have 18,000 verses. No one has any disagreement over this point. Gangasahaya, the writer of Anvitartha Prakasa counted all the words of Srimad Bhagavatam including the uvaca and chapter endings, added them up and divided it by 32 to convert the whole Srimad Bhagavatam into Anustup verses. This is the standard way to count the number of verses. He did this thrice and his calculation was short by one and half verses." The loss of the 1 1/2 verses is due to different editions of the SB. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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