[INDOLOGY] Sarvatathāgatatattvasaṃgraha manuscript

[David and Nancy Reigle]

First, thank you to Ryan Conlon for finding the listing of this manuscript
that I could not find in the catalogue of the Nepalese-German Manuscript
Cataloging Project, and for providing a link to it. This is very helpful.

Next, as I suspected, there is only one old manuscript of the
*Sarvatathāgatatattvasaṃgraha*, not two. Daisy Cheung made this clear in an
off-list reply to me. Thank you to her for that. She then provided
additional information about it:

"For a new description of the Sanskrit MS of the STTS available see
Tanemura 2020: (75)ff.

Tamenura, Ryugen 種村隆元. 2020.
‘Saravatathāgatatattvasaṃgrahaの説くāveśa儀礼—金剛界大マンダラ章「成就が生じるための印に関する智」校訂テキストおよび和訳注—’.
智山学報 69: 71–97.

"Tanemura 2020 can be downloaded here:
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/chisangakuho/69/0/69_0071/_pdf/-char/ja

It made no sense to me that there would be two very old manuscripts of this
text, both discovered independently in the same library, first by Tucci in
1932 and then by David Snellgrove and John Brough in 1956. That was one
reason for my inquiry, the other being a wish to obtain scans of this
manuscript. The description of this manuscript by Tucci as being in late
Gupta characters, and the description of this manuscript by Horiuchi as
being in Siddham characters, led de Jong in his review (cited in my opening
post) to assume two different manuscripts.

It is now clear that the manuscript reproduced in facsimile by Lokesh
Chandra and David Snellgrove in 1981 is the same as the manuscript that was
microfilmed by the Nepal-German Manuscript Preservation Project listed at
the link provided by Ryan Conlon. If no one has a scan of this manuscript,
now almost impossible to obtain from Kathmandu, or even a scan of the 1981
published facsimile of it, I will try to scan this facsimile and post it.

Thanks and best regards,

David Reigle
Colorado, U.S.A.

On Tue, Jan 2, 2024 at 3:27 PM Ryan Conlon <rconlon517 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear David,
>
> The manuscript is Kaiser Library ms 143 (NGMPP C 14/20). A catalogue entry
> can be found here:
> https://catalogue.ngmcp.uni-hamburg.de/receive/aaingmcp_ngmcpdocument_00059778.
> Unfortunately I do not have images of this manuscript at my disposal.
>
> Best regard,
>
> -- Ryan
>
> On Wed, 3 Jan 2024 at 03:03, David and Nancy Reigle via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>
>> Of the two known surviving Sanskrit manuscripts of the
>> *Sarvatathāgatatattvasaṃgraha*, one has been published in facsimile by
>> Lokesh Chandra and David Snellgrove in 1981. The other one is said to be
>> written in late Gupta characters, and was in the collection of General
>> Kesar Sham Sher Jang in 1932 when Giuseppe Tucci announced the discovery of
>> it (*Indo-Tibetica*, vol. 1, p. 93). That collection should now be part
>> of the Nepal National Archives, Kathmandu, and it would have been
>> microfilmed by the Nepal-German Manuscript Preservation Project. However, I
>> was unable to find it listed in the catalogue of the Nepalese-German
>> Manuscript Cataloging Project. Does anyone have any more information about
>> this manuscript, or a microfilm or scans of it (or even a microfilm or
>> scans of the devanāgarī transcript of it that Tucci obtained, and that
>> was used by Horiuchi for his edition)?
>>
>> J. W. de Jong, in his 1977 review (*Indo-Iranian Journal*, vol. 19, pp.
>> 125-127) of Horiuchi's 1974 edition of the second part of this text, says
>> he checked Nagao's 1963 list of the Buddhist manuscripts in the collection
>> of Field Marshall Kaiser. As reported by de Jong, this list does not
>> mention the *Sarvatathāgatatattvasaṃgraha*, and the only manuscript
>> there described as written in Gupta characters is entitled
>> *Sarvakula-tatvasiddhi-vidhi-vistara-tantra*. I have also searched the catalogue
>> of the Nepalese-German Manuscript Cataloging Project under that title,
>> with no results.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> David Reigle
>> Colorado, U.S.A.
>>
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