[INDOLOGY] Confession of ignorance and request for your kind advice

[Dhaval Patel]

Namaste,

I understand Gujarati. 'bolisu' seems Gujarati, meaning, 'we will speak'.
I am a Gujarati and can read manuscripts with interlinear commentaries. I
can help you decipher the commentary in case you wish to share the MSS via
personal mail.



On Sun, 2 Sep 2018, 16:47 Jonathan Silk via INDOLOGY, <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> Dear Colleagues
>
> I have been working for a while on a short text variously ascribed to
> differently named authors, a text called Praśnottararatnamālikā / ºmālā.
> Several of the manuscripts I was able to obtain have interlinear
> commentaries (well, I understand them to be commentaries), but I cannot
> read them. I can live with that, but I'd at least like to know what
> language they are in.
> One of them is in Harvard, and the catalogue information for this
> manuscript contains the following:
>
> Interlinear commentary throughout the manuscript might be in old Hindi or
> Prakrit but Poleman has identified it as Gujarathi. The beginning and the
> end of the commentary is as follows, on [[facs=f1r, locus=f. 1r]]
> śrīgautamāya namaḥ namaskarī kevalī taṇatu svāmī tīrthaṁkara
> praśnottararatnamālāprakaraṇa bolisu . dānavamanuṣya
> devatāvaṁdanīka pūjya tathā deva māhi śrī mahāvīra and on
> [[facs=f4v, locus=f. 4v]] 28 nīpajāvī śvetāṁbara ācārye īṁ vimala
> īsaiṁ nāmi īṁ ūjhalī praśnottararatnamālā kaṁṭhirahi huṁtī
> puruṣa pratina tralakarīṁ api tu alaṁkarī īṁ 29 .
>
>
> Another MS contains, for instance, near the beginning the following (I
> don't know how to split the words so I just transcribe as scripta continua
> as well as I can read it):
> tehaniṁnamīniṁ praśnottaratnamālā nāma prakaraṇa kahispuṁ
>
> Any advice would be appreciated, and with excuses in advance for my utter
> ignorance.
>
> Jonathan
>
> --
> J. Silk
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