BY: SUN STAFF
Oct 26, CANADA (SUN) — A comparative view of text changes made to Srila Prabhupada's books.
Who's Counting? 541 Verses Changed
Posting on Adi-vani.org by Krsna Krpa devi dasi:
"See the table below for the number changed in each chapter. How many Bhagavad-gita As It Is verses were changed in the 1983 revised edition? Over three-fourths of them, 77% or 541 verses were changed out of 700 total.
Srila Prabhupada's 1972 Bhagavad-gita As It Is, published by Macmillan Company, was compared with the BBT revision, first published in 1983. Only the verses were examined.
In 21 verses (3%), only the spelling, punctuation or capitalization was changed, and the words were left intact. In 520 verses (74%), words were removed, rearranged, or inserted. In Chapter 17, 93% of the verses were changed. See the table below for the number changed in each chapter.
Bhagavad-gita As It Is Verses Changed in the BBT 1983 Revised Edition
Chapters 1 - 18: 541 verses out of 700 = 77% changed
Number of Verses Changed Per Chapter
Ch 1: 35 out of 46 = 76% changed;
Ch 2: 49 out of 72 = 68% changed;
Ch 3: 33 out of 43 = 77% changed;
Ch 4: 23 out of 42 = 55% changed;
Ch 5: 19 out of 29 = 66% changed;
Ch 6: 43 out of 47 = 91% changed;
Ch 7: 22 out of 30 = 73% changed;
Ch 8: 21 out of 28 = 75% changed;
Ch 9: 24 out of 34 = 71% changed;
Ch 10: 36 out of 42 = 86% changed;
Ch 11: 50 out of 55 = 91% changed;
Ch 12: 16 out of 20 = 80% changed;
Ch 13: 24 out of 35 = 69% changed;
Ch 14: 24 out of 27 = 89% changed;
Ch 15: 15 out of 20 = 75% changed;
Ch 16: 20 out of 24 = 83% changed;
Ch 17: 26 out of 28 = 93% changed;
Ch 18: 61 out of 78 = 78% changed
