Re: [INDOLOGY] Mahāvastu questions

[David and Nancy Reigle]

Dear Valerie,

On your question no. 2, the scan of the J. J. Jones translation that I made
and posted is searchable:

http://prajnaquest.fr/downloads/BookofDzyan/Sanskrit%20Buddhist%20Texts/mahavastu_vol_one_1949_eng.pdf
http://prajnaquest.fr/downloads/BookofDzyan/Sanskrit%20Buddhist%20Texts/mahavastu_vol_two_1952_eng.pdf
http://prajnaquest.fr/downloads/BookofDzyan/Sanskrit%20Buddhist%20Texts/mahavastu_vol_three_1956_eng.pdf

On your question no. 3, Jones inserted the page numbers of the Senart
edition into his translation, so that is the easiest way to correlate the
two.

On your question no. 4, I do not have Basak's edition, but when I examined
it at a library I noted that it is based on or copied from Senart's
edition. He added a Bengali translation.

Glad that someone else already answered no. 1, with a link to the online
searchable Sanskrit text at GRETIL. As you know, and as noted here by
Seishi Karashima on May 16, a new (and much improved) edition is coming out
shortly:

*The Mahāvastu: A New Edition*, vol. III, ed. by Katarzyna Marciniak
(Bibliotheca Philologica et Philosophica Buddhica XIV,1)

ISBN 978-4-904234-18-1.

A PDF file will soon be made available at the following link:
http://iriab.soka.ac.jp/en/publication/bppb.html


Best regards,

David Reigle
Colorado, U.S.A.


On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 10:02 AM Valerie Roebuck via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> Dear Colleagues
>
> (1) Does anyone know where there is a searchable Sanskrit text of the
> Mahāvastu Avadāna online? The one formerly at
> http://fiindolo.sub.uni-goettingen.de/gretil/1_sanskr/4_rellit/buddh/mhvastuu.htm
> seems to have disappeared.
>
> (2) Similarly with a searchable translation? The versions I’ve found of
> the J J Jones one are frustrating to use: see (3).
>
> (3) Does anyone understand the verse and chapter numbering of this text?
> The text references and translation seem to use a completely different
> system.
>
> (4) Has anyone got Basak’s text to hand? If so, I would be grateful to see
> copies of a couple of pages.
>
> Many thanks -
>
> Valerie J Roebuck
> Manchester, UK
>
>
>
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