signature verses

[Dipak Bhattacharya]

This is how Abhyaakara tells his name in the first verse of the Vajraavalii
+ni.spratyūham ihābhayasya mahasā vajrāvalī mīlatu 
The proprer name has been translated in the Tibetan version
bjigs.pa. medpahi.mthu.yis.bgegs.med.hdir.ni.rdo.rje.phre´.ba.hdu.bar.śog 
Praj;naakara ends the Bodhicaryaavataarapa;njikaa 
ma;nju;sriir iva sadgu.navasati.h praj;naakaro jaayataam
There was no fixed rule. Poets writing in NIA languages took recourse to refrains occurring at regular intervals
 
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--- On Tue, 24/2/09, Paul G. Hackett <ph2046 at COLUMBIA.EDU> wrote:

From: Paul G. Hackett <ph2046 at COLUMBIA.EDU>
Subject: Re: signature verses
To: INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk
Date: Tuesday, 24 February, 2009, 8:28 PM

Dear Jonathan,

At 3:26 PM +0100 2/24/09, Jonathan Silk wrote:
>I am interested in the
>case of Buddhist authors "signing" their works in, typically, a
closing
>verse. (I think I recall an example from Candrak¥rti....?)

    Perhaps the instance you are thinking of 
occurs in the first of CandrakIrti's closing 
verses to his _yuktiSaSTikA-vRtti_:

klu yi rkyen yin 'jigs dang bcas pas yongs spangs pa
rigs pa'i ku mu da 'di kha 'byed _zla ba_ ni
nyes pa'i 'byung gnas rab rib rnam pa rab bcom nas
blo gros mi ldan skye bo rnams la _grags pas_ mdzes

regards,

Paul Hackett
Columbia University



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