Dear Peter, (cc: INDOLOGY)

good to hear Kazuo came to the rescue once again (as he so often does on such matters)! I guess, then, that RS was lucky with these photographs, or his self-assessment as a poor photographer in MJY is overstated.

The second volume (1950) of Meri Jivan Yatra with the accounts on the Tibetan journeys (1929-30, 1934, 1936 and 1938) can be found as PDF in the DLI: http://www.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/428822.

Indeed, MJY makes for worthwhile reading, for many reasons!

Best, Birgit

Am 2017-05-10 um 14:47 schrieb Péter-Dániel Szántó:

Dear Birgit,

Thank you for your valuable notes. Perhaps I should've written a
follow-up email to this in good time.

My friend Kazuo Kano came to the rescue -- and this is certainly not the
first time! Apparently the plates were passed on to Wogihara, and later
ended up with Kendai Eno'u (if this is the right spelling), who
published it in 1973. Nagao wrote a review in 1976.

The text is indeed called Prajñāpradīpāvalī (actually, this is only a
part, the 8th chapter), just like its Tibetan translation, which is
attributed to Jñānapāda, but these are two very different texts!

At first I thought that this must be the 'other' Buddhaśrījñāna, who
worked among the Gnubs, but then I started seeing quite exact parallels
in Abhayākaragupta's Munimatālaṃkāra (and therefore in
Daśabalaśrīmitra's Saṃskṛtāsaṃskṛtaviniścaya). I'm still not quite sure,
but chances are that this could be (a bit of) one of Jñānapāda's
juvenilia, composed after his study with Haribhadra (whose influence is
undeniable), when he was at Nālandā, before his (first) trip to the Konkan.

Is Merī jīvan yātrā online by any chance? It would be wonderful to read
it, not only for 'our' interests, but also because it's considered, if I
understand correctly, the foundation of the Hindi travelogue.

Many thanks once again.

Yours,
Peter

On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 1:29 PM, Birgit Kellner via INDOLOGY

<indology@list.indology.info <mailto:indology@list.indology.info>> wrote:

    In his Hindi autobiography "Meri Jivan Yatra", Sankrtyayan writes
    that he didn't have a camera suitable for photographing manuscripts
    at the time (the journey was undertaken in 1934), only a Rolleiflex
    (which at the most allowed him to take pictures of statues in
    monasteries).

    Moreover, he also had no facilities to develop the photographs in
    situ and therefore could not check whether they were ok -- and knew
    very little on photography at the time.

    He therefore took the trouble to transcribe everything that was
    important to him (like the Vibhūticandra ms of Prajñākaragupta's
    Pramāṇavārttikālaṅkāra, or an ms of Dharmakīrti's Vādanyāya).

    If, therefore, there is no record that he took photographs of the
    Abhisamayālaṅkāra comm. on one of his later journeys (1936 or 1938),
    I'd say it's very unlikely that there are any (usable) photographs
    preserved in Patna.

    With best regards,

    Birgit

            On May 5, 2017, at 8:39 AM, Péter-Dániel Szántó via INDOLOGY
            <indology@list.indology.info
            <mailto:indology@list.indology.info>
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            Rahul Sankrtyayan in his 1935 report wrote that he had seen and
            photographed a 27-folio ms. of Buddhaśrījñāna's
            Abhisamayālaṃkāra
            commentary in Lhasa.

            Does anyone know what became of these photos? They do not
            seem to be
            kept in the Göttingen collection (I checked Bandurski's
            catalogue
            relatively thoroughly).



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