[INDOLOGY] Svarodaya

Thu Jul 18 03:16:00 UTC 2024

Dear Matthew (if I may) and Indologists,

It is unlikely to shed much light on your question about "older versions"
of the text, pre-14/15th C., but for whatever it may be worth, here's my 2
rupees:

The 16th century Odia poet, Jaśobant Dāsa (aka. Yashovant Das),
translated/transcreated an Odia version of the text under the title *Śiba
Swarodaẏa*. For that reason, several secondary sources on Odia literature,
like Mohanty's *Oḍiśāra Nātha Saṃpradāya o Nāthasāhitya* and MIshra's *The
Cult of Jagannātha, *discuss the *Svarodaya*, particularly in relation to
other slightly related Odia works like the *Saptāṅgajogasāraṭikā* of
Baḷarāma Dāsa.

Unfortunately, these treatments are often very brief and cursory.
Nonetheless, I still offer these leads because -- depending on your
penchant or masochism (/joking) -- you might find more on the topic in
other Anglophone studies of Odia literature. Admittedly, it's a bit of a
long shot though.

Either way, I'll be interested to see what arises from your study of the
two collections of Tibetan diagrams.

*Sincerely,*

*Westin Harris*
Ph.D. Candidate
Study of Religion
University of California, Davis
https://religionsgrad.ucdavis.edu/people/westin-harris
<https://religions.ucdavis.edu/people/westin-harris>

2021 Dissertation Fellow,
The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Program in Buddhist Studies

Sarva Mangalam.

On Wed, Jul 17, 2024 at 1:45 PM Matthew Kapstein via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> Dear David,
>
> Many thanks for your messages, though, with the exception of your edition,
> which I look forward to seeing soon, these materials are known to me. The
> YuddhajayArNava, of which there are many manuscripts in Kashmir and Nepal,
> but some also in western collections, is pretty clearly related with the
> Tibetan, though I've not yet mapped out just how close the correspondences
> are. My query concerned more the general category of "svarodaya," which
> seems to cover a wide range of works whose structural and substantial
> connections are not yet at all clear to me, if indeed such connections are
> to be found amongst them (my hunch is that they are, but I don't want to
> get ahead of myself....)
>
> I attach here the chapter on divination from my recent volumes on Tibetan
> manuscripts, which has a brief section on the svarodaya diagrams in Tibet.
> The short project I'm actually developing concerns two collections of these
> diagrams (cakra), but in this context I want to be able to say something
> more about the background and origins.
>
> with thanks for your interest and best regards,
> Matthew
>
> Matthew T. Kapstein
> Professor emeritus
> Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, PSL Research University, Paris
>
> Associate
> The University of Chicago Divinity School
>
> https://ephe.academia.edu/MatthewKapstein
>
> https://vajrabookshop.com/product/the-life-and-work-of-auleshi/
>
>
> https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501716218/tibetan-manuscripts-and-early-printed-books-volume-i/#bookTabs=1
>
>
> https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501771255/tibetan-manuscripts-and-early-printed-books-volume-ii/#bookTabs=1
>
> https://brill.com/edcollbook/title/60949
>
> Sent with Proton Mail <https://proton.me/> secure email.
>
> On Wednesday, July 17th, 2024 at 5:23 PM, David and Nancy Reigle <
> dnreigle at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> P.S.
> Also a second Sanskrit manuscript of the
> *Yuddhajayārṇava-tantra-svarodaya*:
>
> https://archive.org/details/YuddhaJayarnava5455Alm25Shlf1GhaDevanagariJyotish/page/n3/mode/2up
>
> On Wed, Jul 17, 2024 at 9:19 AM David and Nancy Reigle <dnreigle at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Dear Matthew,
>>
>> You very likely already know the three items about to be listed; but
>> since no one else has yet replied, at least publicly, I will go ahead with
>> these. Perhaps they will be of use if someone else tries to search
>> svarodaya in the future.
>>
>> 1. The *Yuddhajaya-* or *Yuddhajayārṇava-tantra-svarodaya* is found in
>> Tibetan translation in the Tengyur, Tohoku no. 4322. What seems to be a
>> Sanskrit manuscript of it is available at Archive.org, although I have not
>> checked to see if it is the same text.
>>
>> https://archive.org/details/YuddhaJayarnava5454GhaAlm25Shlf1DevanagariJyotish/page/n7/mode/2up
>>
>> 2. The *Narapatijayacaryāsvarodayaḥ* is another old Sanskrit svarodaya
>> text. It is available at Archive.org in a printed edition:
>>
>> https://archive.org/details/QwjT_narapati-jayacharya-svarodaya-of-shri-narapati-with-jaya-lakshmi-tika-of-harivansha-1946-khemar
>>
>> 3. The *Kālacakra-tantra* has a section on svarodaya in chapter 1,
>> verses 95-127 (or 94-126 in the Shong ston version), which would have been
>> written prior to 1040 CE as determined by John Newman. As you know, my new
>> edition of this chapter has just been published: *Kālacakra-tantra: A
>> Corrected Edition along with Two Tibetan Translations*, vol. 1.
>>
>> With best regards,
>>
>> David Reigle
>> Colorado, U.S.A.
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 16, 2024 at 10:36 AM Matthew Kapstein via INDOLOGY <
>> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear friends,
>>>
>>> To pursue a query I began a few years ago and never followed up on:
>>>
>>> Is there any scholarship that you are aware of, in the fields of Indian
>>> astrology, yoga, tantra, or medicine, on the works variously title
>>> Svarodayatantra, Śiva-svarodaya,
>>>
>>> Svarodaya-vijñāna, etc.? I am primarily interested in older versions of
>>> these text, such as may have been in circulation before the fifteenth or
>>> sixteenth century.
>>>
>>> I am of course familiar with Alain Daniélou's *Le Shiva-Svarodaya: La
>>> naissance du Souffle de Vie *(Milan 1982). Some searches on the
>>> internet have turned up a large number of modern Hindi translations and
>>> commentaries that seem mostly to be non-academic and concern popular
>>> astrology, ayurveda and the like - I imagine that the situation is similar
>>> in other modern Indian languages. (But I would welcome recommendations of
>>> works in Hindi that appear to be of value for academic research on the
>>> Sanskrit texts.)
>>> with thanks,
>>> Matthew
>>>
>>> Matthew T. Kapstein
>>> Professor emeritus
>>> Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, PSL Research University, Paris
>>>
>>> Associate
>>> The University of Chicago Divinity School
>>>
>>> https://ephe.academia.edu/MatthewKapstein
>>>
>>> https://vajrabookshop.com/product/the-life-and-work-of-auleshi/
>>>
>>>
>>> https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501716218/tibetan-manuscripts-and-early-printed-books-volume-i/#bookTabs=1
>>>
>>>
>>> https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501771255/tibetan-manuscripts-and-early-printed-books-volume-ii/#bookTabs=1
>>>
>>> https://brill.com/edcollbook/title/60949
>>>
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