Dyadviveda's Niitimañjarii on Puruuravas and Urva/sii and pseudo-quotations

[Christophe Vielle]

Thank you very much, Prof. Tokunaga, for this answer.
So the verse numbered 153 that you kindly typed is the only "new" one in
the Niitimañjarii, where it is thus followed first by the BD passage (that
I have both in Macdonell's edition, and in your 1997 one, which is a real
model of critical work), and then by the VAD verses (that I have both in
Macdonell's SA edition from the Anecdocta Oxoniensia, and in their
Saaya.na's quoting), as I was guessing. I suppose than the NM quotation do
not give new or better readings than the VAD as edited by Macdonell from
several mss.  However, does the NM mention, or not, for these 15 verses its
source explicitely, viz. either the VAD or Saaya.nabhaa.sya ?
Anyway, what seems to me interesting in the case of these verses in the VAD
is that they appear to be there not a quotation from a lost epic/puraa.nic
passage but a real "creation" ad hoc  by the commentator .Sa.dguru/si.sya
himself, what can be also found with Puur.nasarasvatii ad Meghaduuta 45
about the cows of Rantideva.
Yours,
CV


>pp.325-26
>
>striijito na bhaved ity artha(m) aaha --
>
>na striijitaH pramuuDhaH syaad gaaDharaagavazaM gataH /
>raajorvazyaa jito muuDho duHkham aapa puruuravaaH //153//
>
>tathaa ca bRhaddevataa (7/147-153) --
>
>(After the BD text, fifteen verses are quoted from VAD.
>You will find the latter text in Macdonell's edition of the
>SarvaanukramaNii.)
>
>
>Actually the BD text quoted in the NM edition in question is 7.147-152.
>The text is not identical but the verse numbers correspond
>to those in Macdonell's edition of the BRhaddevatA.
>So see his edition (HOS ser. Vol. V, 1904), pt.1, p.91.
>For more information, see my new edition of the BRhaddevataa (Kyoto,
>1997), 7.117-23(pp.135-36) and the explanatory notes on the verses
>(pp.280-81).
>
>If you do want to check the exact text quoted in the NM (Benares 1933)
>, which I don't think very meaningful, (as well as the VAD verses in
>Macdonell's SA), I will type and send it to you personally.
>
>Tokunaga
>Kyoto
>
>
>> Could somebody provide me and the list with the Sanskrit text of fifteen
>> verses devoted to the story of Puruuravas and Urva/sii by the Gujarati
>> author Dyadviveda (15th century) in his Niitima q jarii (somewhere p. or
>>$B%! (B
>> 325 in the 1933 ed. by Sitarama Joyrama Joshi according to the only
>> reference I have).
>> At least its length appears to be exactly the same than the /sloka-passage
>> quoted (composed?) on the subject by the Keralan .Sa.dguru/si.sya in his
>> Vedaarthadiipikaa ad SA ad RV 10.95 (ca 1187), which itself was quoted
>> again with some variants by Saaya.na (ad RV 10.95).
>> Thank you very much
>>
>> Dr. Christophe Vielle
>> Centre d'Etudes de l'Inde et de l'Asie du Sud
>> Institut orientaliste
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>> B - 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
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>> Tel. +32-(0)10-47 49 54 (office)/ -(0)2-640 62 66 (home)
>> E-mail: vielle at ori.ucl.ac.be
>
>--
>Muneo TOKUNAGA <mtokunag at bun.kyoto-u.ac.jp>


Dr. Christophe Vielle
Centre d'Etudes de l'Inde et de l'Asie du Sud
Institut orientaliste
Place Blaise Pascal 1
B - 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
BELGIUM
Tel. +32-(0)10-47 49 54 (office)/ -(0)2-640 62 66 (home)
E-mail: vielle at ori.ucl.ac.be