vulgate
vulgateThe commonly received, widely printed version of a text, as distinct from a scholarly critical edition reconstructed from manuscripts, in which an interpolation can be identified and set aside.
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.
- Devas and Asuras Deities
…he devas the younger." — Mahābhārata 12.34.13 · Critical Edition; the vulgate numbers Śānti Parva differently The Puranic genealogies fill in the family, and they belong to a later layer than the Upanishad's Pr…
- Eighty-five titles and no text: the Saura tantras and how a tradition disappears Lineages
At verses 1.294 to 1.308, in the numbering of the Mitakshara vulgate, it sets out the grahayajna , the rite of the planets, for anyone who desires prosperity, peace, rain, long life or increase, and, it adds in…
- Who is Rama? Deities
— Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.35.13 · Critical Edition; vulgate 3.37.13 It is an extraordinary thing to say of a person, that the abstract order of the world, the dharma that holds society and cosmos together, has walke…
- Against the Page Treatise
In a late stratum of the Mahabharata , in the Anushasana-parva, the vulgate numbering 13.24.70, a list is given of people bound for niraya , hell.
- The First Poem Treatise
It stands at Balakanda 1.2.15 in the vulgate that Griffith and Dutt follow (1.2.14 in the critical edition), in the anushtubh metre, the four-line couplet that would go on to carry the Ramayana , most of the Ma…
- The Press Treatise
That single broadcast version becomes the vulgate , the common, widely accepted printed text that most people now read and assume to be simply the text.
- The Search for the Original Treatise
There was a printed vulgate , the commonly received text in wide circulation, but no edition that had weighed the manuscripts against one another.