MaitreyasamitinATaka

[John C. Huntington]

Dear Deven,

A complete Asasaphu Archive index including the 1500 unlisted  
manuscripts was posted on our website after the OSU library received  
the only partially index set.

it is at

http://huntingtonarchive.osu.edu/projects.htm

You might want your colleague to refer to that just in case

John
> Dear List,
>
> One of my colleagues from East Asian studies is trying to locate  
> information
> about whether or not a Sanskrit text called the
> *Maitreyasamitinataka*exists or ever existed.  Even if no actual text
> has survived, is there any
> record of such a Sanskrit title?  He tells me that although we have  
> various
> sorts of *Maitreyasamiti *texts (*-vyakarana, -avadana*) in Uyghur,
> Khotanese, Chinese, etc., the idea that the famous Tocharian text  
> was a *
> nataka* is based on the reconstruction of the word (*na[tkam]*) as  
> it was
> supposed to have occurred on a damaged ms.  (Sieg and Siegling,  
> 1921.I:  128
> [253a.5-6).   According to him, the actual text that people call the
> *Maitreyasamitinataka
> *does not really have the form of a drama.  Attached is a scan of the
> damaged ms page.   Thank you.
>
> Regards,
>
> Deven Patel
> University of Pennsylvania
>
> Tocharische_p39.pdf (*application/pdf*)
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