Re: [INDOLOGY] Rare commentary on Sarasvatīkaṇṭhābharaṇa

[Madhav Deshpande]

Thanks, Christophe and Alessandro.  Great help in accessing these rare
books.

Madhav Deshpande

On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 6:23 AM, Christophe Vielle <
christophe.vielle at uclouvain.be> wrote:

> Thank you much for this, dear Alessandro.
>
> Note that beside Bhoja's "ālaṃkārika" Sarasvatīkaṇṭhābharaṇa, there is
> another, grammatical (in *sūtra*-form), Sarasvatīkaṇṭhābharaṇa ascribed
> to the same (which is not distinguished in Cahill's Bibliography).
>
> The edition of the Sarasvatīkaṇṭhābharaṇa-*vy**ākara**ṇ**a*, in 8 *adhy*
> *āya*-s, ascribed to Bhoja, with the (probably 11th c., contemporary) *v*
> *ṛ**tti *Hṛdayahāriṇī of Nārāyaṇabhaṭṭa Daṇḍanātha, was left incomplete
> in the Trivandrum Sanskrit Series; it was planned in 5 volumes, of which
> the first four only were issued:
>
> vol. I [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/313457 or http://
> www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/407040] = TSS no. 117 (1935) contains
> the *adh.* 1,
>
> vol. II [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/313459 or http://
> www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/407042] = no. 127 (1937) the *adh.* 2,
>
> vol. III [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/313458 or http://
> www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/407041] = no. 140 (1938) the *adh. *3-4,
>
> and vol. IV [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/313401 or http://
> www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/406984] = no. 154 (1948) the *adh. *5-6
> [+ index].
>
> The vol. V with the *adh. *7-8 was said ‘in the press’ from 1948
> onwards : it should have had the no. 182 in the series (the no. with the
> title of the vol. is still said ‘not yet published’ in 2005). One can fear
> that the manuscript of this last volume is now lost (I mean that the work
> possibly ready for the press was destroyed or is lost somewhere in the
> ORI&ML building…).
>
> The edition of the complete grammar by T. R. Chintamani published in the
> Madras University Sanskrit Series no. 11 (1937: http://www.new.dli.
> ernet.in/handle/2015/52186) has only the text of the *s**ū**tra*-s, as it
> is the case of the 1992 ed. of the last (8th) *adh. *(which adds for each
> *sūtra* an useful *anvaya* giving the *s**ū**tr**ārtha *and a Gujarati
> commentary by the editor : http://books.google.be/books?id=uICH235KSUMC).
>
> Due to the importance of this post-pāṇinean work, as stressed on by Louis
> Renou (*Études védiques et p**ā**ṇ**inéennes*, t. 3, 1957, PICI series
> no. 4, pp. 121-7) and Robert Birwé (“Nārāyaṇa Daṇḍanātha’s Commentary on
> Rules III.2, 106-121 of Bhoja’s Sarasvatīkaṇṭhābharaṇa”, JAOS 84/2, 1964,
> pp. 150-162), the completing of the edition of the Hṛdayahāriṇī *v**ṛ*
> *tti *is something hoped.
>
> Here are a few Mss. I hinted :
>
> Alph Index KUML vol. 4, ser. no. 19347-8 = Mss no. C.1846 (complete), with
> ref. to the ‘DCS [of the COL ser. no.] 557’, and Ms. no. 839B; vol. 7, ser.
> no. 34766-7 = Ms. no. 19827 (complete), and Ms. no. 14758 ; Descr. Cat.
> Calicut, p. 335-6 no. 591-2 (incompl.) [all mss. in Mal. script on palm
> leaves]; GOML Alph. Ind. vol. 2, ser. no. 23096 = Ms. R. 4179 Tr. Cat. vol.
> 4/1/SkrtB, 1928, pp. 6160-2 [transcr. Dev. on paper < Mal. ms. of
> Kunankulam, incompl. adh. 1-mid 4 ; cf. the complete ms. of the *sūtra* only
> described ibid. R. no. 3279 pp. 4880-1, transcr. D on paper < Mal. ms
> Kottakal]
> Best wishes,
>
> Christophe
>
> Le 15 nov. 2016 à 10:34, Alessandro Battistini <alessandro.battistini@
> uniroma1.it> a écrit :
>
> Dear all,
>
> with the kind help of Lidia Szczepanik (SOAS London) and Jesse Knutson
> (Hawaii Manoa) I've managed to put together Katsuhiko Kamimura's edition of
> the little known commentary by Bhaṭṭa Narasiṃha on the
> Sarasvatīkaṇṭhābharaṇa. This edition appeared in the 70s scattered in
> various issues of hard-to-find Japanese journals. It is not even mentioned
> in Cahill's otherwise impeccable Annotated Bibliography, and I came across
> it by mere chance. I hope this might be of some interest for the
> ālaṃkārikas amongst us. It can be downloaded at this Dropbox link
> <https://www.dropbox.com/sh/f825qyldlalkrme/AAAGhJsSjKw54CNM3hubbc2La?dl=0>
> .
>
> Best,
>
> Alessandro Battistini
> Gonda fellow, IIAS Leiden
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