Re: [INDOLOGY] Rare commentary on Sarasvatīkaṇṭhābharaṇa

Thu Nov 17 15:51:07 UTC 2016

Dear Christophe,

Thank you very much for all the details on Bhoja's vyākaraṇa, and for
pointing to digital editions! Seems we have killed two birds with one
stone. Whatever we mean by Sarasvatīkaṇṭhābharaṇa, now we have plenty of
material to work with...
Best

Alessandro Battistini
Gonda fellow, IIAS Leiden

2016-11-15 13:55 GMT+01:00 Christophe Vielle <christophe.vielle at uclouvain.be
>:

> I should have add that there is another good ed. of the  adh. 2 pād. 1-3
> of the SKBh (gram.) based on the Madras Ms. R. no. 4179 :
> The Uṇādisūtras of Bhoja with the Vṛtti of Daṇḍanātha Nārāyaṇa, ed. T. R.
> Chintamani, Madras University Sanskrit Series no. 7 (= The Uṇādisūtras in
> Various Recensions) part VI [A], 1934 (Reprint New Delhi: Navrang, 1993):
> http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/292655
> http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/496423
> http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/368313
>
> See p. xii about the use of the name Sarasvatīkaṇṭhābharaṇa
>
> Le 15 nov. 2016 à 12:43, Madhav Deshpande <mmdesh at umich.edu> a écrit :
>
> 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://ww
>> w.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://ww
>> w.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://ww
>> w.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://ww
>> w.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.erne
>> t.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 Hṛ
>> dayahāriṇī *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 at 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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