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[C5_E] Phanibhushana Tarkavagisha. 5 vols. Calcutta 1917-1929 (1324-1336 B.S.). Reprinted in 5 vols. West Bengal State Book Board. [no. 247 in the first edition of EIP, but no entry in EIP³] There were at least two reprints. The copy Ph I 6: 186 gives 1981¹, 1984¹ and 1982¹ for first three volumes, and prz’s copy 1989², 2000², 2000², 1988¹, 1989¹ (the complete set). The first reprint series is also available at TUUB (26 A 4578), LC B132.N8 G36512 1981 and UCL B132.N8B365120 1981. All three catalogues indicate in brackets that the first volume of 1981 is a second edition. However, this information has erroneously been extracted from the preface to this volume, where it is stated that the reprint follows the second printing of 1346 (B.S. = 1939) of the second edition by the Bangiya Sahitya Parishad. The latter date is the one of the copy used by Matilal (cf. below).

Sources: To be determined.
Contents: The edition includes a Bengali translation and Bengali elucidation (ṭippaṇī).
Remarks: As regards the year of publication of the first edition, we follow the date indicated in the first Indian edition of EIP (Delhi 1970) (described merely as a Bengali translation; second edition of the first volume 1936), Kesavan 1970: 359, which accords with that given in Saha 1987 (where it is mentioned that the second edition of the first volume was published in 1936), and Thakur 1996a: vii (given as 1324-1336 B.S.). Randle 1930 mentions the completion of the first two volumes corresponding to the first two adhyāya-s, with the starting date of 1917 for the whole undertaking. The date of the original publication is given in Chattopadhyaya/Gangopadhyaya 1965-1974 (introduction to Vol. 1 of 1967, reprinted 1975) as 1324-1326 B.S. (= 1917-1919). Further dates are 1932-1935 according to Chakrabarti 1978, and 1346 B.S. (= 1939), probably referring to the second printing of the second edition by the Bangiya Sahitya Parishad, according to Matilal 1985.

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