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[Dominik Wujastyk]

R. Gruenendahl says:
> 
> > What methods should be used for editing Sanskrit texts? 
> 
> My undogmatic answer to this: I think, the "classical" method provides 
> a very good orientation, but it should be adapted to the particular 
> circumstances, i.e. to the manuscript material one has to deal with 
> in every individual edition project.

Yes.  This is very much the issue addressed by Martin L. West in his
excellent little book "Textual Criticism and Editorial Technique"
(Stuttgart: Teubner, 1973), explicitly written to replace Maas's
"Textkritik" in order to take account of contamination and other
factors that make Maas's "pure" system inapplicable in so many
real-world cases.  I always tell my students to read West before doing
anything with Sanskrit manuscripts.

Dominik