[INDOLOGY] Re: Puranas

[Harry Spier]

What I would find useful is if someone could list the critical editions or
even editions made from multiple manuscripts of Puranas.
Harry Spier


On Sat, Feb 20, 2021 at 10:46 AM David and Nancy Reigle <dnreigle at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I suppose that your query has long since been answered privately, but we
> cannot know for sure. There is a statement in some of these volumes that
> the whole series (Ancient Indian Tradition and Mythology) is translated
> from the Venkatesvara Steam Press editions, which in this statement are
> termed the vulgate. As is well known, the Venkatesvara editions were in
> most cases simply printed versions of a particular manuscript of that
> purana, correcting only obvious scribal errors, since the purpose was to
> make the puranas available on print. Of the ones you mentioned, I have seen
> that the Vayu is in fact translated from the Venkatesvara edition, and a
> spot check of the Linga also indicates the same. So I assume that the
> others are, too. However, the Skanda translation is a reprint of an earlier
> translation published starting in 1950, rather than being newly translated
> for the series. So I do not know what edition that translation was based
> on.
>
> Best regards,
>
> David Reigle
> Colorado, U.S.A.
>
> On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 10:37 AM Paolo Eugenio Rosati <
> paoloe.rosati at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear indologists,
>>
>> anyone can help me to identify on which published edition or manuscript
>> are based the following translations:
>>
>> Shastri, Jagdish L., ed., 1981. *The Kūrma-Purāṇa. *vol. 1 of 2. Delhi:
>> Motilal Banarsidass*.*
>>
>>
>> Shastri, Jagdish L., ed., 1985. *The Brahmāpurāṇa. Translated and
>> Annotated by a Board of Scholars*. vol. 1 of 4. Delhi: Motilal
>> Banarsidass.
>>
>>
>> Shastri, Jagdish L., ed., 1998. *The Liṅgapurāṇa*. *Translated by a
>> Board of Scholars*. vol. 2 of 2. Delhi/Patna/Varanasi: Motilal
>> Banarsidass.
>>
>>
>> Tagare, Ganesh V., ed., 1992. *The Skandapurāṇa*. *Translated and
>> Annotated*. Vol. 1 of 23. New Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass.
>>
>>
>> Tagare, Ganesh V. ed., 1987. *Vāyupurāṇa:* *Translated and Annotated*.
>> Vol. 1 of 2. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass.
>>
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> Paolo
>>
>>
>> --
>> *Paolo E. Rosati*
>>
>> *PhD in Asian and African Studies*
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