Re: [INDOLOGY] Mahāvastu questions

[Valerie Roebuck]

Dear David

That’s absolutely marvellous - a beautifully clear and searchable copy.

I’m primarily looking into this for an online bibliography of Dhammapada/Dharmapada/Udānavarga literature. The publishers only want me to list material that is currently available, but I will be able to add the new edition when it is published. (Most of the Dharmapada material in the Mahāvastu will no doubt be in vol. III.)

Many thanks -

Valerie

Valerie Roebuck
vjroebuck at btinternet.com



> On 15 Jun 2019, at 22:01, David and Nancy Reigle <dnreigle at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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_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_two_1952_eng.pdf>
> http://prajnaquest.fr/downloads/BookofDzyan/Sanskrit%20Buddhist%20Texts/mahavastu_vol_three_1956_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 <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 <mailto: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 <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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