[INDOLOGY] a question about the āśīrliṅ

[David and Nancy Reigle]

Referring to the question raised by Harry Spier a few days ago: I am now
back at my books, and can confirm that *vīkṣiṣiraṃs* is a typographical
error in the digital input of the 1977 book referred to, as Matthew
Kapstein assumed. It is correctly *vīkṣiṣīraṃs* in this book. Digital
editions are very helpful, but it is still necessary to have the books or
image scans of the books to check possible typos such as this one.

GRETIL Abhisamayālaṃkāra
https://gretil.sub.uni-goettingen.de/gretil/corpustei/transformations/html/sa_abhisamayAlaMkAra.htmData
entry: members of the Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon Input Project
Based on the ed. by Ramsankar Tripathi: Abhisamayalankaravrttih Sphutartha.
Sarnath : Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies (CIHTS), 1977.
grānthārambhaprayojanam sarvākārajñatāmārgaḥ śāsitrā yo 'tra deśitaḥ /
dhīmanto vīkṣiṣiraṃstamanālīḍhaṃ parairiti // asa_1.2 //


Thank you to all who have posted the very interesting references to the
*āśīrliṅ* in various Sanskrit textbooks.

Best regards,

David Reigle
Colorado, U.S.A.


On Thu, Mar 19, 2026 at 5:52 PM Harry Spier via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> Dear list members,
>
> Matthew Kapstein and ( David Reigle using edition 1929 by Stcherbatsky
> and Obermiller) spell the word as *vīkṣiṣīraṃs* . Same text in GRETIL
> (different editions) spell it *vīkṣīṣīraṃ*s and *vīkṣiṣiraṃs*
>
> Are these misprints or alternate spellings in GRETIL? *pratipatsīrann* is
> spelled the same in these etexts
>
> *Matthew Kapstein and ( David Reigle)*
>
> sarvākārajñatāmārgaḥ śāsitrā yo'tra deśitaḥ|
> dhīmanto vīkṣiṣīraṃs tam anālīḍhaṃ parair iti ||1||
>
> smṛtau cādhāya sūtrārthaṃ dharmacaryāṃ daśātmikām |
> sukhena pratipatsīrann ity ārambhaprayojanam ||2||
>
> --------------------------
>
> *GRETIL abhisamayālaṃkaranāmaprajñāpāramitopadeśaśāstram *
>
>
> https://gretil.sub.uni-goettingen.de/gretil/corpustei/transformations/html/sa_maitreyanAtha-abhisamayAlaMkaranAmaprajJApAramitopadezazAstra.htm
> input by Christian Coseru (no source book given) has;
>
> sarvākārajñatāmārgaḥ śāsitrā yo 'tra deśita /
>
> dhīmantī vīkṣīṣīraṃstamanālīḍhaṃ parairiti // Abhs_1.1 //
>
> smṛtau cādhāya sūtrārthaṃ dharmacaryā daśātmikā /
>
> sūkhena pratipatsīrannityārambhaprayojanam // Abhs_1.2 //
>
> --------------------------------------
>
> GRETIL Abhisamayālaṃkāra https://gretil.sub.uni-goettingen.de/gretil/corpustei/transformations/html/sa_abhisamayAlaMkAra.htmData entry: members of the Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon Input Project
> Based on the ed. by Ramsankar Tripathi: Abhisamayalankaravrttih Sphutartha.
> Sarnath : Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies (CIHTS), 1977.
> grānthārambhaprayojanam sarvākārajñatāmārgaḥ śāsitrā yo 'tra deśitaḥ /
> dhīmanto vīkṣiṣiraṃstamanālīḍhaṃ parairiti // asa_1.2 //smṛtau cādhāya sūtrārthaṃ dharmacaryāṃ daśātmikām /
> sukhena pratipatsīrannityārambhaprayojanam // asa_1.3 //
>
> Harry Spier
>
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