[INDOLOGY] hiṅgula and cīnapiṣṭa

[Jonathan Silk]

My my Arlo, the wonders of one minute with google:
https://84000.co/translation/toh11

On Tue, Jan 21, 2025 at 7:43 AM Arlo Griffiths via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> Colleagues,
>
> In Hemacandra's Abhidhānacintāmaṇi, we read:
>
> sindūraṃ nāgajaṃ nāgaṃ raktaṃ śṛṅgārabhūṣaṇam |
> cīnapiṣṭaṃ haṃsapādakuruvinde tu hiṅgulaḥ || 1061 ||
>
> According to Böhtlingk <
> https://archive.org/details/hemaandrasabhid00hemagoog/page/n219/mode/2up>,
> who was apparently relying on a commentary, the words up to and including
> cīnapiṣṭa mean Mennig, i.e. "read lead", while the other words mean
> Zinnober, i.e. cinnabar.
>
>
> In the GRETIL e-text for "Dasasahasrika Prajnaparamita, chapter 1 and 2
> translated from the Tibetan" <
> https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.281348/page/n109/mode/2up>,
> §57, I find some of the terms listed by Hemacandra combined:
>
> buddhānāṃ bhagavatāṃ
> hiṅgula-manaḥśilā-cīnapiṣṭa-vaiḍūrya-tāmrakiṭṭa-varṇair likhitānīva
> lakṣaṇāni
>
>
>    1. Can anyone tell me more about this Sanskrit text apparently not
>    preserved as such in Sanskrit?
>    2. Is Konow's reconstruction reliable?
>    3. Has the text been translated into a Western language?
>
> I would like to know especially
>
>    4. whether there is any reason to believe that in some contexts
>    cīnapiṣṭa and hiṅgula could refer to the same substance
>    5. whether there is any other, perhaps more solid, Indian textual
>    evidence for the use of cinnabar in worship of Buddha images
>
> Thanks in advance for your learned comments.
>
> Arlo Griffiths
>
>
>
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