[INDOLOGY] Buddhasrijnana's Abhisamaya commentary

[Péter-Dániel Szántó]

Dear Birgit,

Thank you for your valuable notes. Perhaps I should've written a follow-up
email to this in good time.

My friend Kazuo Kano came to the rescue -- and this is certainly not the
first time! Apparently the plates were passed on to Wogihara, and later
ended up with Kendai Eno'u (if this is the right spelling), who published
it in 1973. Nagao wrote a review in 1976.

The text is indeed called Prajñāpradīpāvalī (actually, this is only a part,
the 8th chapter), just like its Tibetan translation, which is attributed to
Jñānapāda, but these are two very different texts!

At first I thought that this must be the 'other' Buddhaśrījñāna, who worked
among the Gnubs, but then I started seeing quite exact parallels in
Abhayākaragupta's Munimatālaṃkāra (and therefore in Daśabalaśrīmitra's
Saṃskṛtāsaṃskṛtaviniścaya). I'm still not quite sure, but chances are that
this could be (a bit of) one of Jñānapāda's juvenilia, composed after his
study with Haribhadra (whose influence is undeniable), when he was at
Nālandā, before his (first) trip to the Konkan.

Is Merī jīvan yātrā online by any chance? It would be wonderful to read it,
not only for 'our' interests, but also because it's considered, if I
understand correctly, the foundation of the Hindi travelogue.

Many thanks once again.

Yours,
Peter

On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 1:29 PM, Birgit Kellner via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> In his Hindi autobiography "Meri Jivan Yatra", Sankrtyayan writes that he
> didn't have a camera suitable for photographing manuscripts at the time
> (the journey was undertaken in 1934), only a Rolleiflex (which at the most
> allowed him to take pictures of statues in monasteries).
>
> Moreover, he also had no facilities to develop the photographs in situ and
> therefore could not check whether they were ok -- and knew very little on
> photography at the time.
>
> He therefore took the trouble to transcribe everything that was important
> to him (like the Vibhūticandra ms of Prajñākaragupta's
> Pramāṇavārttikālaṅkāra, or an ms of Dharmakīrti's Vādanyāya).
>
> If, therefore, there is no record that he took photographs of the
> Abhisamayālaṅkāra comm. on one of his later journeys (1936 or 1938), I'd
> say it's very unlikely that there are any (usable) photographs preserved in
> Patna.
>
> With best regards,
>
> Birgit
>
> On May 5, 2017, at 8:39 AM, Péter-Dániel Szántó via INDOLOGY
>>> <indology at list.indology.info <mailto:indology at list.indology.info>>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Rahul Sankrtyayan in his 1935 report wrote that he had seen and
>>> photographed a 27-folio ms. of Buddhaśrījñāna's Abhisamayālaṃkāra
>>> commentary in Lhasa.
>>>
>>> Does anyone know what became of these photos? They do not seem to be
>>> kept in the Göttingen collection (I checked Bandurski's catalogue
>>> relatively thoroughly).
>>>
>>
>>
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