[INDOLOGY] Scribe Ganesha

[Alfred Hiltebeitel]

Bruce Sullivan's book on Vyasa also has the N an S texts and in translation.

On Sun, Sep 4, 2016 at 1:47 PM, Dominik Wujastyk <wujastyk at gmail.com> wrote:

> The Sanskrit you are looking for is in the Southern Recension.  See the
> highlighted "Gaṇeśa" words in adhyāya 1:
>
>    - http://sarit.indology.info/exist/apps/sarit/works/%C4%
>    81diparva__adhy%C4%81ya_001.html?action=search#1.3.4.3.8.121
>    <http://sarit.indology.info/exist/apps/sarit/works/%C4%81diparva__adhy%C4%81ya_001.html?action=search#1.3.4.3.8.121>
>
> Reference: http://sarit.indology.info/exist/apps/
> sarit/works/sarit__mah%C4%81bh%C4%81rata#mb-krishnacharya
>
> Best,
> Dominik Wujastyk
>
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> On 4 September 2016 at 09:10, HdGoswami <hr at ivs.edu> wrote:
>
>> We have all heard the popular story that Vyasa dictated the Mahabharata
>> to his scribe Ganesha. This story does not appear in the critical text of
>> the MBh, though it does appear in alternate readings that didn’t make it
>> into the CE’s main text. I have access to a digital copy of the critical
>> edition’s supplementary passages, but I cannot locate therein readings that
>> describe Ganesha the scribe. Since Ganguly includes this Ganesh story in
>> his translation somewhere around CE 1.1.56, I have been checking the
>> Adi-parva alternative readings, but I can’t find the Ganesha story  either
>> in the CE’s running list of shorter alternative readings for 1.1, or at the
>> end where the CE gives longer supplementary passages.
>>
>> I would appreciate any help in finding the alternative Sanskrit readings
>> that give the Ganesha story.
>>
>> For reference, here is Ganguly’s translation, roughly around 1.1.56 of
>> the CE:
>>
>> "Sauti said, 'Brahma having thus spoken to Vyasa, retired to his own
>> abode. Then Vyasa began to call to mind Ganesa. And Ganesa, obviator of
>> obstacles, ready to fulfil the desires of his votaries, was no sooner
>> thought of, than he repaired to the place where Vyasa was seated. And when
>> he had been saluted, and was seated, Vyasa addressed him thus, 'O guide of
>> the *Ganas*! be thou the writer of the *Bharata* which I have formed in
>> my imagination, and which I am about to repeat."
>>
>> "Ganesa, upon hearing this address, thus answered, 'I will become the
>> writer of thy work, provided my pen do not for a moment cease writing." And
>> Vyasa said unto that divinity, 'Wherever there be anything thou dost not
>> comprehend, cease to continue writing.' Ganesa having signified his assent,
>> by repeating the word Om! proceeded to write; and Vyasa began; and by way
>> of diversion, he knit the knots of composition exceeding close;"
>> Many thanks.
>> Howard
>>
>>
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