interpolation
In textual scholarship, material added to a text after an earlier stage of its composition; detected through manuscript comparison, metre, style or doctrinal discontinuity, and often carried unremarked in the vulgate.
Where this term appears
- What is Jyotisha? Scriptures
Scholarship does not: Pingree treats it as pseudepigraphic and early-medieval, Jan Gonda places its first part after 600 CE, and the printed vulgate rests on late manuscripts with heavy interpolation.
- What is the Bhagavad Gita? Scriptures
The Bhagavad Gita, "the Song of the Lord," is a Sanskrit scripture of about 700 verses in eighteen chapters, set as a dialogue between the warrior Arjuna and…
- What is the Mahabharata? Scriptures
The Mahabharata is an ancient Sanskrit epic of roughly 100,000 shlokas in 18 books, traditionally attributed to the sage Vyasa and composed and expanded over…
- What is the Ramayana? Scriptures
Some traditional commentators and some scholars defend the unity of all seven books and treat the interpolation theory as overstated.
- Is the Bhagavad Gita an interpolation in the Mahabharata? Journal
This is the premise beneath every interpolation argument ever made about any part of the epic.
- Is Sanskrit the mother of all languages? Journal
…yar's, and 1,571 from an editor who stripped out what he judged to be interpolations.
- The Tamil Siddha Lineage Treatise
According to a third view (with which Vaiyapuripillai partly agreed), the text may contain an ancient core with substantial later interpolations.