[INDOLOGY] Sources of two verses

[petra kieffer-pülz]

> I can't help in identifying the source of your stanzas, but there are similar stanzas in Pāli in Saṅgharakkhita's Moggallānapañcikāṭīkā (13th century CE).
> The first is introduced by yadāhu, so it probably is taken from an older source. Saṅgharakkhita translated several texts from Sanskrit into Pāli (on metre and rhetoric).
> So it is very probable that he also translated these stanzas from some Sanskrit source. If you succeed in identifying the source of your stanzas I would be interested in it.
> 
> The versions in the Mogg-p-ṭ (Burmese edition), p. 2 are
> yad āhu

> sabbass' eva hi satthassa kammassāpi ca kassaci
> ken' etaṃ gayhate tāva yāva vuttam payojanaṃ ti.
> 
> Nanu satthappayojanānaṃ sambandho pi vattabbo idam assa payojanan ti
> yato:
> 
> siddhappayojanaṃ siddhasambandhaṃ sotum icchati
> sotādo tena vattabbo sambandho sappayojano ti.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Petra Kieffer-Pülz
> 
> Am 20.05.2015 um 20:58 schrieb Martin Gansten:
> 
>> I'd be grateful for any help with identifying these two verses, relating to the concepts of sambandha and prayojana, quoted by Balabhadra in the early 17th century:
>> 
>> jñātārthaṃ jñātasambandhaṃ śrotuṃ śrotā pravartate |
>> granthādau tena vaktavyaḥ sambandhaḥ saprayojanaḥ ||
>> 
>> sarvasyaiva hi śāstrasya karmaṇo vāpi kasyacit |
>> yāvat prayojanaṃ noktaṃ tāvat tat kena gṛhyate ||
>> 
>> Thanks in advance,
>> 
>> Martin Gansten
>> 
>> 
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