[INDOLOGY] NEW BOOK: Cāndravyākaraṇa 1.3

[Dragomir Dimitrov]

NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT

Cāndravyākaraṇa 1.3
The Section on Primary Derivatives of Candragomin’s Grammar of Sanskrit

A critical edition of the Cāndrasūtra, Vr̥tti, and Pañjikā
by Mahesh Deokar, Dragomir Dimitrov, and Chōjun Yazaki

Pune 2024
Pune Indological Series, vol. V
Hardcover, lv, 167 pp.
Department of Pali and Buddhist Studies, Savitribai Phule Pune University
ISBN: 978-81-956499-5-2
Price: INR 3495

SUMMARY: More than one hundred years after the great German indologist 
Bruno Liebich (1862–1939) published for the first time the complete texts of 
Candragomin’s Cāndrasūtra (fifth century AD) and the Cāndravr̥tti, a new 
edition of these important grammatical works based on more handwritten 
materials from South Asia has been long overdue. The present book 
containing Cāndravyākaraṇa 1.3 is offered with the aim to fulfil even just 
partially this desideratum. Apart from a new release of that part of 
Candragomin’s main grammatical treatise which deals with the primary 
derivatives in Sanskrit, this publication includes a new edition of the 
corresponding part of the Cāndravr̥tti, as well as an editio princeps of the 
Cāndrapañjikā. The edition of the Cāndravr̥tti, a seminal commentary most 
likely authored by Candragomin himself, is based on several more Nepalese 
manuscripts apart from those few codices used by Liebich at the turn of the 
twentieth century and was prepared while consulting in addition other 
important sources which helped to establish a more reliable version of this 
grammatical work. For the hitherto unedited Cāndrapañjikā (tenth century), 
Ratnamati’s commentary on the Cāndravr̥tti, three fragmentary palm-leaf 
manuscripts discovered in Nepal, India, and Tibet were used and the 
Moggallānavyākaraṇa (twelfth century), Moggallāna’s Pali grammar indebted 
to Candragomin and Ratnamati/Ratnaśrījñāna, was also considered 
throughout. Besides the edited Sanskrit texts, the present book contains an 
introduction with a detailed exposition of the long history of Cāndra studies 
and an overview of the handwritten materials used for the purpose of the 
editions included here.

This publication containing Candragomin’s Cāndravyākaraṇa 1.3, the section 
on the primary derivatives in Sanskrit, together with the corresponding parts 
of its two most important commentaries, the Cāndravr̥tti and the 
Cāndrapañjikā, may appeal to readers with interest in Indian grammar, 
philology, textual criticism, manuscriptology, and the history of sciences.

The printed book as well as an e-book version (PDF) can be ordered at:
https://scms.unipune.ac.in/pis

With best wishes,
Dragomir Dimitrov

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  Prof. Dr. Dragomir Dimitrov
  Indologie und Tibetologie
  Philipps-Universität Marburg
  Deutschhausstr. 12
  D-35032 Marburg
  Germany

  Tel.: +49 178 9190340, +91 9922514639
  E-mail: dimitrov at staff.uni-marburg.de
  http://www.uni-marburg.de/indologie
  https://www.dragomir-dimitrov.net
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