MaitreyasamitinATaka

[Mahendra Kumar Mishra]

 Maitreya samitinataka   is   of course  a  drama(nataka)   and maitreya may
be connected to  Buddhism  and samiti  means ( samgha ) of Buddhism.
 Itis a sanskrit word.
 mahendra kumar mishra

On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 8:44 PM, John C. Huntington <huntington.2 at osu.edu>wrote:

> 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*)
>> 714K<?ui=2&ik=7e18f04ab2&view=att&th=11d54542a366bcb7&attid=0.1>
>>
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