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Notes on the Texts
Record of Yoga: July-August 1915. The Record for 1 July-26 August 1915 was kept in the letter-pad already used for the Record of 22 April-30 June of the same year. The entry with the general heading "July", summarising the results of the previous month and the expectations for the coming month, begins on the page following the last entry of June.
Record of Yoga: February-March 1916. No Record was kept between 26 August 1915 and mid-February 1916. The Record of 19 February-20 March 1916 was kept in the letter-pad previously used from April to August 1915. Two blank sheets separate the entries of the earlier period from those of the later.
The last paragraph of the entry for 19 February is found at the bottom of the preceding page in the manuscript, after the general introduction to February 1916. In the margin next to this paragraph, Sri Aurobindo wrote: "This should have been recorded on the next page." He also put a long double line to separate the misplaced paragraph from the rest of the contents of the page, and inserted the date "Saturday Feb 19th" at the top of the paragraph. This date has been put editorially within square brackets at the head of the entry of the nineteenth, which is itself dated only "Feb".
After the entry of 5 March, the dates put by Sri Aurobindo do not agree with the days of the week he has written. This continues until the entry marked "Monday. 19th March", where the Record for 1916 terminates. It may be noted that a page was left blank between the entry of "Sunday / March 5" and the one marked "Tuesday. Mar 6". This suggests that "Tuesday" is probably correct and the date is wrong. The dates from "13 March" onwards were added later in a different ink. The days of the week, put at the time of writing, are presumably correct. The dates have accordingly been corrected in square brackets by the editors.
Record of Yoga: 9 January-14 February 1917. No Record survives for the period between March 1916 and January 1917. The Record of 9 January-14 February 1917 was kept in a small bound notebook that had been used previously for notes on the Veda, for the "intermediate Record" of 2-23 January 1915, and again for notes and an essay draft on the Veda. The entries of January -February 1917 were written on pages or parts of pages left blank when the Vedic work was done. At one point thirty pages of Vedic material intervene between pages used for the Record. After the entry of 14 February this notebook was set aside, though a few usable pages remained.
The sources of the "sortileges" or "references" from known Sanskrit works in this instalment of Record of Yoga are identified below. TABLE OF SANSKRIT REFERENCES
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