Transcribed from the Devanagari OCR of the printed edition at shloka_source_url (Achyuta Nand Jha ed., vol. 1) and checked word-for-word against two further independent scans of two different printed editions of the same commentary — Krishna Chandra Dvivedi's (https://archive.org/download/brihatsamhitawithbhattotpalavivrittipartidr.krishnachandradvivedi/Brihat%20Samhita%20%20with%20Bhattotpala%20Vivritti%20Part%20I%20-%20Dr.%20Krishna%20Chandra%20Dvivedi_djvu.txt) and A.V. Tripathi's (https://archive.org/download/JiUm_brihat-samhita-part-1-of-varaha-mihira-by-avadh-bihari-tripathi-saraswati-bhavan-granthamala/Brihat%20Samhita%20Part%201%20of%20Varaha%20Mihira%20by%20Avadh%20Bihari%20Tripathi%20-%20Saraswati%20Bhavan%20Granthamala_djvu.txt). Only glyph-level OCR artifacts that all three scans show to be artifacts (e.g. OCR रद्वव for रद्गव, श्व for श्च) have been normalised; every substantive reading is as scanned, and the two places where the scans genuinely differ are flagged in identification_notes. The Samāsa-saṃhitā half-verse is quoted only for its first line; the second line is damaged in all three scans and is not reproduced. The Samāsa-saṃhitā line भरणीरौद्रमघाऽनिलशक्रधनिष्ठादिसम्प्रवृत्तेषु is a COMPOSITE of two damaged scans and is not verbatim from any single one: Krishna Chandra Dvivedi's reads भरणीरोद्रमघाऽनिटशक्रधनिप्ठादिसम्प्रवृत्तेषु, Achyuta Nand Jha's भरणीरीद्रमघाऽनिलशक्रधनिष्ठादिसम्मवृत्तेषु; each supplies exactly what the other loses. Flagged as a reconstruction. Also, the words ज्येष्ठाद्ये द्वे पञ्चनक्षत्रे in the Parāśara maṇḍala passage follow A.V. Tripathi's scan (ज्येष्ठादये दे); Achyuta Nand Jha's reads ज्येष्ठाय द्वे and Krishna Chandra Dvivedi's ज्येष्ठा द्वे.
A SIXTH sky-division scheme, parallel to the nine vīthīs and three mārgas but named nowhere in Varāhamihira's own text. BS 9.10–9.21 describes six maṇḍalas by their opening asterism only ('bharaṇī-pūrvam ṛkṣa-catuṣkam', 'ārdrādyaṃ bha-catuṣṭayam', …); the NAMES survive solely in the Parāśara passage Utpala quotes on BS 9.22. Utpala's own prose confirms the count: 'atha śukrasya ṣaṇ-maṇḍalāni bhavanti' (comm. on 9.10). Varāhamihira's own lost Samāsa-saṃhitā, also quoted by Utpala here, lists the six by their initial asterisms with deity-synonyms: 'bharaṇī-raudra-maghā-anila-śakra-dhaniṣṭhādi-sampravṛtteṣu' — i.e. Bharaṇī, Raudra (=Ārdrā), Maghā, Anila (=Svātī), Śakra (=Jyeṣṭhā), Dhaniṣṭhā. Assignment of each name to each maṇḍala follows the order of the two lists; Parāśara's further remark ('the first four maṇḍalas they call Vāta; Tīkṣṇa the Vyāḍa-road; Ūrdhvadaṇḍa Vaiśvānara, excepting Śravaṇa') is elliptical and its exact force is uncertain — flagged as such.