[INDOLOGY] Thakkana again

[Péter-Dániel Szántó]

Dear friends,

Perhaps I'm missing something, but prof. Slaje's argument would work only
with the assumption that the verse/text was mediated through Śāradā only
and no other script until the printed form. I am completely unfamiliar with
the manuscript history of this text. Moreover, I am looking at an 11th c.
Śāradā ms. right now (do we have anything slightly earlier?): while ccha
and stha are clearly different, they are not _that_ different and I can see
how in a hurried hand they could've been confused.

As for sgrib byed/med, a Tibetan could have thought that such an
inauspicious word is not apposite for a maṅgala/pratijñā verse, but perhaps
it is nothing more than a psychological slip: while sgrib byed and sgrib
med occur more or less at the same rate (quick grep through the Bstan 'gyur
yields 68 vs 67), a search for sgrib pa med pa vs sgrib pa byed pa yields
919 to 1.

Best wishes,
Peter


On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 12:09 PM Roland Steiner via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> Let me add a comment right now.
>
> That śrīmacchakuna° cannot be corrupted from śrīmatthakkana° is of
> course completely correct. My original consideration was that śakuna
> could have been a reading in a direct or indirect source of the verse
> (which is not to be emended text-critically then), but I had lost the
> focus on this in the further discussion.
>
> Walter's idea that the author could have replaced the negatively
> connoted sthagana with a positively connoted śakuna, is very worth
> considering. Something similar could have happened in the course of
> the transmission of the Tibetan translation. It is conceivable that
> sgrib byed was held to be inappropriate for a name (and therefore to
> be a potential textual corruption) and was replaced by sgrib med
> (perhaps in the sense of anāvaraṇa "free from destruction", or similar).
>
> Best,
> Roland
>
>
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