This from Jayadvaita Swamis BBTi Website..where we are told…and please note MADE HIS REVISIONS. The revisions are done from the first page to the last page. Very interesting to see HDG Srila Prabhupadas words simply swept aside. Annotated Scans When Jayadvaita Swami made his revisions for the second edition of Bhagavad-gita As It Is, he did them directly on a copy of the book--that is, a copy of the first edition. After the second edition was published, for many years his first-edition copy was lost. But back in roughly 2006, Dravida Dasa found it in a trunk in San Diego. More recently, that copy has been scanned and digitized. And now the BBT is putting it here online. So maybe we need to point this rule out to HH Jayadvaita Swami. According to the current Chicago Manual of Style, if 20% of a first edition has been revised, it becomes a second edition -- not just a second printing -- requiring the date and names of the editors. Additionally, to quote from the Modern Language Associations Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing: The publisher when planning a new edition of the work, may obtain revisions from a third party expert if the author refuses to make them or disagrees about their necessity... the contract... should provide that the original author and the revising author be given separate credits. Of course the BBT editors assert that they were not new authors of the book, but merely bringing it closer to the original authors words as referenced in available fragmental recordings or transcripts. The predominating difference is, obviously, that Srila Prabhupada was not present to consult with or agree or disagree. Nevertheless, whatever lends more weight to a closure or sealing of the book from further editing is in order...Rupanuga das,
Posted on: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 05:30:57 +0000
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