# Errors in the Print, Reproduced on Purpose

vedabase.cc serves the first printed editions of Śrīla Prabhupāda's books. Every
line of the digital text has been checked against a scan of the paper, page by
page, and where the two differed, the paper won.

The paper is not always right. A first edition has typos, misspelled names, a
gloss that says the opposite of what the word means. The rule of this project is
that we reproduce those too. What the reader gets is the book as it was printed,
not the book as it should have been printed.

This is the list of those places: **77 cases** where the print is wrong and the
digital text now matches it anyway. Each one was adjudicated against the page
image, in most cases at 400–600 dpi, before it was written. None of them is an
oversight.

The one exception the rule allows is the print contradicting itself. Where a
plate slipped and repeated a line, that is damage to the object rather than a
reading, and it is not copied.

In the tables below, the middle column is what the digital text said before —
usually the correct English — and the right-hand column is what the paper says
and what the site, the ebooks and the app packs now carry.

## Misspellings carried over (40)

| Reference | Digital text had | Print reads — and this is what we serve | Page |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bg. 4.10 | embarrassed | **embarassed** | p. 258 |
| Bg. 9.19 | ascertain | **acertain** | p. 511 |
| Bg. 12.18-19 | equipoised | **equiposed** | p. 655 |
| CC Ādi 6.73 | unconquerable | **inconquerable** | p. 580 |
| CC Madhya 9.155 | unnecessarily | **unneccesarily** | p. 409 |
| CC Ādi 11.31 | thatched | **thached** | p. 395 |
| CC Madhya 14.144 | receive | **recieve** | p. 322 |
| CC Ādi 17.203 | nonbelieving | **nonbeliving** | p. 386 |
| CC Madhya 24.266 | brought | **broughts** | p. 262 |
| EKC ch. 2 | conqueror | **conquerer** | p. 35 |
| EKC ch. 4 | conqueror | **conquerer** | p. 57 |
| EKC ch. 5 | jackal | **jackel** | p. 79 |
| KB ch. 16 | bank | **hank** | p. 193 |
| KB ch. 29 | ecstasy | **ecstacy** | p. 279 |
| KB ch. 29 | grievously | **grieviously** | p. 284 |
| KB ch. 47 | cherished | **cherised** | p. 425 |
| KB ch. 49 | craftsmanship | **craftmanship** | p. 443 |
| KB ch. 53 | belligerent | **belligerant** | p. 476 |
| KB ch. 62 | foolish | **foolsih** | p. 103 |
| KB ch. 64 | harassed | **harrassed** | p. 114 |
| KB ch. 67 | counseled | **counciled** | p. 129 |
| KB ch. 73 | equipoised | **equiposed** | p. 176 |
| KB ch. 81 | harassed | **harrassed** | p. 231 |
| KB ch. 86 | homogeneous | **homogenous** | p. 316 |
| KB ch. 86 | abdomen | **adbomen** | p. 289 |
| SB 3.1.11 | forbearing | **forebearing** | p. 30 |
| SB 3.17.13 | pus | **puss** | p. 27 |
| SB 4.16.10 | reservoir | **reservior** | p. 304 |
| SB 4.25.25 | heroes | **heros** | p. 49 |
| SB 4.30.18 | takes | **take** | p. 387 |
| SB 5.3.3 | conqueror | **conquerer** | p. 142 |
| SB 7.7.21 | mineralogist | **minerologist** | p. 92 |
| SB 8.11.11 | beaten | **beated** | p. 101 |
| SB 8.19.13 | enmity | **emnity** | p. 90 |
| TLC ch. 11 | deity | **diety** | p. 153 |
| TLC ch. 19 | possessor | **possesser** | p. 235 |
| TLC ch. 21 | entanglements | **entaglements** | p. 249 |
| TLC ch. 23 | perspective | **prespective** | p. 272 |
| TQK ch. 18 | oneself | **onself** | p. 157 |
| TYS ch. 7 | encumbrances | **encumberances** | p. 50 |

## Proper names and Sanskrit terms deformed in print (20)

| Reference | Digital text had | Print reads — and this is what we serve | Page |
|---|---|---|---|
| CC Madhya 1.220 | kaṇṭhī | **kunti** | p. 156 |
| CC Madhya 17.180 | Mādhavendra | **Mādhavanedra** | p. 130 |
| CC Madhya 20.246 | Yajña | **Yaja** | p. 168 |
| EJ ch. 1 | Vorontsov-Veliaminov | **Vorontsov-Velianino** | — |
| EJ ch. 1 | Nikolai | **Nikolat** | p. 19 |
| EJ ch. 1 | Śrīpāda Rāmānujācārya defines | **Śrīman Rāmānujācārya defines** | — |
| EKC ch. 4 | Śikṣāṣṭaka | **Śikṣāṣṭakam** | p. 53 |
| LOB text 22 | Empiric philosophers | **Emperic philosophers** | p. 6 |
| LOB text 31 | All these anomalies | **All these anomolies** | p. 6 |
| NOD ch. 21 | Yudhiṣṭhira | **Yushiṣṭhira** | p. 210 |
| SB 1.2.20 | sattva | **sattra** | p. 133 |
| SB 1.9.6-7 | Janamejaya | **Janamcjaya** | p. 96 |
| SB 5.14.13 | Cakravartī | **Cakravatī** | p. 59 |
| SB 5.14.41 | Personality | **Personalty** | p. 96 |
| SB 5.18.17 | Cakravartī | **Cakravatī** | p. 218 |
| SB 5.20.28 | antaryāmī | **antrayāmī** | p. 335 |
| SB 7.7.15 | dharmān | **darmān** | p. 81 |
| SB 8.10.19-24 | Balabhit | **Balahhit** | p. 68 |
| TLC ch. 19 | vayu | **vayn** | p. 233 |
| TQK ch. 17 | manuḥ | **manuḥl** | p. 149 |

## Glosses and words that change the meaning (3)

| Reference | Digital text had | Print reads — and this is what we serve | Page |
|---|---|---|---|
| CC Ādi 1.97 | paṭa-ādi—plates, etc.; | **paṭa-ādi—space, etc.;** | — |
| CC Madhya 3.28 | sun | **son** | p. 282 |
| CC Madhya 8.173 | adhara—lips; | **adhara—lies;** | — |

## Broken grammar and misquotations (12)

| Reference | Digital text had | Print reads — and this is what we serve | Page |
|---|---|---|---|
| CC Madhya 13.48 | The sound was tumultuous, and all the devotees became mad. | **The sound was tumultuous, and all the devotees bacame mad.** | p. 169 |
| EJ ch. 1 | Mahārāja Bharata, despite a life of severe penances, thought of a stag a | **Mahārāj Bharata, despite a life of severe penances, thought of a stag at** | p. 20 |
| EJ ch. 2 | punar janma naiti mām eti so 'rjuna | **punar janma na eti māmeti kaunteya** | p. 11 |
| LOB text 2 | to perform yajñas to satisfy the all-pervading Supreme Truth. There are  | **to perform yajñas to satisfy four different ages, and in the present** | p. 6 |
| POP ch. 2 | false identification with matter | **false indentification with matter** | p. 23 |
| POY ch. 4 | Just as a fort is safe when it is defended by a great general | **Just as when a fort is safe when it is defended by a great general** | — |
| SB 3.19.26 | the Lord, the conqueror of all | **the Lord, the conquerer of all** | — |
| SB 4.29.4 | O conqueror of the foe | **O conquerer of the foe** | — |
| SB 6.2.35 | Every one of us should have this determination | **Everyone one of us should have this determination** | — |
| SB 8.22.29-30 | certainly with pretension that | **certainly with pretention that** | — |
| TLC ch. 8 | known as vaikarika, taijasa and tamasa. | **known as Baikrik, Taijsa and Tamasa.** | p. 126 |
| TLC ch. 24 | a verse from the Skanda Purana | **a verse from the Bhobishya Purana** | p. 227 |

## Factual error (1)

| Reference | Digital text had | Print reads — and this is what we serve | Page |
|---|---|---|---|
| SB, “A Short Sketch of the Life and Teachings” | (formerly known as Sākara Mallika) | **(formerly known as Dabir Khās)** | p. 33 |

## Skipped numbering (1)

| Reference | Digital text had | Print reads — and this is what we serve | Page |
|---|---|---|---|
| TLC ch. 14 | list numbered straight through | **print jumps from 45 to 48** | p. 124 |

### Notes on four of these

**CC Ādi 1.97 and CC Madhya 8.173.** These two are in the word-for-word, where a
wrong gloss is harder for a reader to catch than a misspelling. `paṭa-ādi` means
cloth and plates; the print glosses it "space". `adhara` means lips; the print
glosses it "lies". Both were read off the page image and both stand.

**CC Madhya 3.28.** The translation prints "O daughter of the son-god" where the
sun-god is meant. The word-for-word on the same page has it right, so the print
disagrees with itself here — but not inside the same sentence, which is the only
kind of self-contradiction the rule treats as a defect. It stands.

**TLC ch. 24.** The print attributes the quoted verse to the *Bhobishya Purāṇa*.
The verse is from the *Skanda Purāṇa*. This is not a spelling variant of one
name: it names a different scripture.

**SB, "A Short Sketch".** The print says Sanātana Gosvāmī was "formerly known as
Dabir Khās". Dabir Khās was Rūpa Gosvāmī's name in Muslim government service;
Sanātana's was Sākara Mallika. The digital text had the correct pair and now
carries the print's. Kept as printed by explicit decision.

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## What is not on this list

**Dittography.** When the plate slipped and a line printed twice, that is a
physical defect of the copy, not a reading. It is not reproduced. At SB 3.15.4 I
copied one before catching it — twice, once per pass — and it had to be undone.

**Places where the print was right.** Most of the 5,350 corrections in the ledger
run the other way: the error was in the digital text and the paper had it right.
The colophon at SB 6.18.78 is the clearest case — the digital text read
"Eighteenth Canto" and the Bhāgavatam has twelve; the print reads "Sixth", and
that is what it says now.

**Restorations of the original edition.** "Mohammedans" where the revision put
"Muslims", "Kuvera" for "Kubera", "Chaitanya" for "Caitanya": these are not
errata. They are the reading of the first edition, which is the whole point of
serving these editions.

**Diacritics and punctuation.** OCR is not a reliable witness to either — a full
pass produced 24,035 candidates and not one of them was actionable. Nothing there
is changed without looking at the image.

## Where the list comes from

From `corrections.jsonl` in the text repository, selecting the entries whose note
explicitly records a preserved print errata (`errata-preservation`, `errata del
impreso`, `edition errata`, `manda el impreso`) and excluding those that record an
error in the digital text (`errata del repo`, `repo drift`). Added to those are
the cases in *Easy Journey to Other Planets* and *Teachings of Lord Caitanya*
that were logged in different words. Every entry carries, in its own note, the
printed page and the resolution at which it was verified.

Spanish version of this document: `ERRATAS_DEL_IMPRESO.md`.