Regarding this hermeneutical puzzle: I thought Eli's message was a veiled reference to the famous TED Talk by Hans Rosling, "The Magic Washing Machine": http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_and_the_magic_washing_machine?language=en

We cannot be sure, however, that the Ajitasenavyākaraṇa was one of the books that Hans pulled out of the washing machine at the end.

Best regards,

David Reigle
Colorado, U.S.A.

On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 3:14 AM, Jonathan Silk <kauzeya@gmail.com> wrote:
I began to wonder about the connection between the Ajitasenavyākaraṇa and a washing machine ... until I realized that Eli must have missent his message.
But I'm delighted in the hermeneutical puzzle this will present to future philologists (yes, I used this expression on purpose ;)

jonathan

On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 11:12 AM, Eli Franco <franco@uni-leipzig.de> wrote:

Thank you. I am relieved. Must buy a washing machine. See you later, love, E.

Zitat von Seishi Karashima <skarashima@gmail.com>:

Dear colleagues:

We are happy to announce that a PDF file of the first volume of *The St.
Petersburg Sanskrit Fragments* (StPSF), ed. by Seishi Karashima and
Margarita I. Vorobyova-Desyatovskaya, Tokyo 2015: The Institute of Oriental
Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences (= IOM RAS) and The
International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology (= IRIAB), Soka
University, 545 pages + 123 plates, ISBN978-4-904234-11-2, is now available
on the following websites:


http://orientalstudies.ru/eng/index.php?option=com_publications&Itemid=75&pub=1501

http://iriab.soka.ac.jp/orc/Publications/StPSF/index_StPSF.html


*Table of contents*

Foreword by Irina F. Popova vii

Preface by Margarita I. Vorobyova-Desyatovskaya ix

The *Śārdūlakarṇāvadāna* from Central Asia by Tensho Miyazaki, Jundo
Nagashima, Tatsushi Tamai and Zhou Liqun 1

The *Ajitasenavyākaraṇa* Manuscripts from Central Asia and Gilgit by Jiro
Hirabayashi, William B. Rasmussen and Safarali Shomakhmadov  85

The *Avadāna* Anthology from Merv, Turkmenistan by Seishi Karashima and
Margarita I. Vorobyova-Desyatovskaya 145

The *Mahāparinirvāṇa-mahāsūtra* Fragments in the Petrovsky Collection (1)
by Hiromi Habata 525

Postscript by Seishi Karashima 543

Plates 1~123


Seishi Karashima

IRIAB, Soka University, Tokyo


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