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Today's Topics:

   1. Ismail Jogi mantra (Artur Karp)
   2. Re:  Tracing a verse in the Pur??as (David and Nancy Reigle)
   3. Re: Indraj?lavidy?sa?graha (Dominik Wujastyk)
   4. Summer Sanskrit @ harvard (Witzel, Michael)
   5. Udbha?a/Bh?maha (Jesse Knutson)
   6. Fwd:  Vim?n?rcan?kalpa? (Dominik Wujastyk)
   7. thanks to Andrew Ollett (Jesse Knutson)
   8. Re: Buddhasrijnana's Abhisamaya commentary (Birgit Kellner)
   9. Re: Buddhasrijnana's Abhisamaya commentary (P?ter-D?niel Sz?nt?)
  10. Re: Buddhasrijnana's Abhisamaya commentary (Birgit Kellner)


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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 9 May 2017 18:12:23 +0200
From: Artur Karp <karp@uw.edu.pl>
To: indology <indology@list.indology.info>
Subject: [INDOLOGY] Ismail Jogi mantra
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Five years ago I sent to the List this question:

<< Mantras in popular Indian magic books - of indrajala type - invoke often
two mysterious personages: Ismail Jogi and Nuna/Nona/Luna/Lona Chamarin.

Has anyone written a paper on them. A monograph - perhaps?>>

?There was no answer.


One such mantra runs as follows:



*O? namo k?mr? des k?m?khy? dev?*


*Tah?? base ism?il jog?*


*Ism?il jogi ke t?n be??*


*Ek to?e ek picho?e*


*Ek ??t tij?r? go?e*



I am not sure about the meaning of this mantra.


Ismail Jogi (contradictio in adiecto) had three sons:


one aborted (?), one retarded (?)


one coolly (?) in your (?) womb.



I would be grateful for your comments,



Artur Karp (ret.)

Chair of South Indian Studies,

University of Warsaw

Polska

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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 9 May 2017 11:21:09 -0600
From: David and Nancy Reigle <dnreigle@gmail.com>
To: Madhav Deshpande <mmdesh@umich.edu>
Cc: "Indology@list.indology.info" <Indology@list.indology.info>,
        Christophe Vielle <christophe.vielle@uclouvain.be>
Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY]  Tracing a verse in the Pur??as
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My apologies for giving the wrong reference in the Padmapur??a, and my
sincere thanks to Christophe for pointing this out. As I now see, the verse
being asked about is actually Padma-pur??a 5.106.22, which is not
referenced in the verse-index in the Nag Publishers edition. This was found
by Shankara and posted on the Bharatiya-Vidvat-Parisat list.

The verse that Madhav asked about is:

b?hum?lakucadvandvayonispar?anadar?an?t

kasya na skhalati citta? reta? skanna? ca no bhavet

As found in the Ve?ka?e?vara Press edition reprinted by Nag Publishers,
Padma-pur??a, P???la kha??a (the 5th), adhy?ya 106, verse 22, is:

b?hum?lakucadva?dvasvayonispar?adar?an?t

kasya na skhalate ceto reta? skanna? ca no bhavet

In the ?nand??rama edition of the *Padmapur??am* (4 vols., 1893-1894), the
P???la kha??a is the 4th rather than the 5th kha??a. Here this verse is
found in adhy?ya 102 rather than 106, but the verse number remains the
same, 22. Verse 4.102.22 in this edition (vol. 2, 1894, p. 682) is:

b?hum?lakucadva?dvasvayonispar?adar?an?t

kasya na skhalate citta? reta? skanna? ca no bhavet

The other verse that Dge-'dun-chos-'phel quotes here, susnigdha? romarahita?,
etc., is 5.106.17 in the Ve?ka?e?vara Press edition, and 4.102.17 in the
?nand??rama edition.

Best regards,

David Reigle
Colorado, U.S.A.


On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 5:16 AM, Madhav Deshpande via INDOLOGY <
indology@list.indology.info> wrote:

> Dear Matthew and Christophe,
>
>      I should clarify that the original question regarding the source of
> these verses came from my colleague Don Lopez who is lookinf at this
> Tibetan work and is aware of Karen Lang's translations.
>
> Madhav
>
> On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 3:15 AM, Matthew Kapstein via INDOLOGY <
> indology@list.indology.info> wrote:
>
>> Dear Madhav and Christophe,
>>
>> Undoubtably Hopkins consulted his colleague Karen Lang about the verse
>> and reports her response
>> to his query. He is not referring to her published work. I have no idea
>> why he is speaking of
>> "Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit" here at all. The Tibetan author,
>> Dge-'dun-chos-'phel, spent considerable
>> time in India and was a fair Sanskritist. But Tibetan publications of his
>> writings often introduce
>> errors into his Sanskrit citations. This hardly qualifies them as BHS.
>>
>> Matthew
>>
>> Matthew Kapstein
>> Directeur d'?tudes,
>> Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes
>>
>> Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies,
>> The University of Chicago
>> ------------------------------
>>
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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 9 May 2017 17:06:08 -0600
From: Dominik Wujastyk <wujastyk@gmail.com>
To: Artur Karp <karp@uw.edu.pl>
Cc: indology <indology@list.indology.info>
Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] Indraj?lavidy?sa?graha
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Many of the books published by Jivananda Vidyasagara Bhattacharyya are
available in an organized way from archive.org
<https://archive.org/details/Complete_Works_of_Jibananda_Vidyasagara>,
thanks to someone with the moniker "shankara."  But the
Indrajalavidyasangraha is missing from that list.

?
--
Professor Dominik Wujastyk <http://ualberta.academia.edu/DominikWujastyk>
?,?

Singhmar Chair in Classical Indian Society and Polity
?,?

Department of History and Classics <http://historyandclassics.ualberta.ca/>
?,?
University of Alberta, Canada
?.?

South Asia at the U of A:

?sas.ualberta.ca?
??


On 9 May 2017 at 09:01, Artur Karp via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info
> wrote:

> My great thanks to Lubom?r Ondra?ka - for his fast help.
>
> I already have the text (Indraj?lavidy?sa?graha ED Vidy?s?gara (3rd ed.
> 1915).pdf), sent to me via WeTransfer.
>
> Here is the download link:
>
> https://wetransfer.com/downloads/ed615fa7383c57c5d305a32a825
> 1206e20170509063931/56a8e941faf7a7d7bdda15d5fc632ac320170509063931/856d3e
>
> Thanks again, Lubomir
>
> 2017-05-09 8:34 GMT+02:00 Artur Karp <karp@uw.edu.pl>:
>
>> Dear List,
>>
>> Does anyone, by chance, possess access to a pdf of this Compendium?
>>
>> I have searched for it in all net archives and google-type sources, but -
>> so far - no luck.
>>
>> Three editions are mentioned in Goudriaan-Gupta?s *Hindu Tantra and
>> Sakta Literature*, p. 117:
>>
>> <<Manuscripts abound all over India (cf. NCO, VIII, p. 314); there are
>> several editions, e.g. those by J. VIDYASAGAR in: Indraj?lavidy?sa?graha,
>> Calcutta 1915 (bad ed.); by B.M. PANDEY, Varanasi 1963; by SY?MASUNDARAL?LA
>> TRIP??H?, Bombay 1909, re-ed. 1965, in 24 chs. See further IOL-SB, I, p.
>> 712.>>
>>
>> Your help would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Artur Karp (ret.)
>>
>> Chair of South Asian Studies
>> University of Warsaw
>> Polska
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 9 May 2017 23:44:23 +0000
From: "Witzel, Michael" <witzel@fas.harvard.edu>
To: "INDOLOGY@yahoogroups.com" <INDOLOGY@yahoogroups.com>, Indology
        <indology@list.indology.info>, "indo_iranian@yahoogroups.com"
        <indo_iranian@yahoogroups.com>
Cc: "Witzel, Michael" <witzel@fas.harvard.edu>,
        "Indo-Eurasian_research@yahoogroups.com"
        <Indo-Eurasian_research@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [INDOLOGY] Summer Sanskrit @ harvard
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A GENTLE REMINDER: there are a few days left to sign up for Summer Sanskrit @ Harvard.
Please let your colleagues and students know?.
Best wishes, Michael

==============================================================
Dear All,

Just like for the past 25 years, we are offering an introduction to Sanskrit in the Harvard Summer School, June 17 - Aug. 5.
Please see:  <http://www.summer.harvard.edu/courses/beginning-sanskrit/32541>

A few qualified High School Students are welcome as well.
Please let your colleagues/students know.
Registration is open until May 15.

Hope seeing some of you over the Summer?

M. WItzel
<witzel@fas.harvard.edu>

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Message: 5
Date: Tue, 9 May 2017 14:25:58 -1000
From: Jesse Knutson <jknutson@hawaii.edu>
To: Indology <indology@list.indology.info>
Subject: [INDOLOGY] Udbha?a/Bh?maha
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Dear Friends, Does anyone have a soft copy of Gnoli's ed of Udbha?a's
commentary on Bh?maha?, i.e.:

Udbha?a's Commentary on the K?vy?la?k?ra of Bh?maha with an Appendix by
Margherita Taticchi including some fragments of K?lid?sa's Raghuva??a.
Literary and Historical Documents from Pakistan II. Rome: Istituto Italiano
per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente, 1962.

Thanks!,J
--
Jesse Ross Knutson PhD
Assistant Professor of Sanskrit and Bengali, Department of Indo-Pacific
Languages and Literatures
University of Hawai'i at M?noa
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Message: 6
Date: Tue, 9 May 2017 18:26:16 -0600
From: Dominik Wujastyk <wujastyk@gmail.com>
To: Indology <indology@list.indology.info>
Subject: [INDOLOGY] Fwd:  Vim?n?rcan?kalpa?
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After Madhav sent it to me yesterday, I uploaded it to Archive.org, so it's
available for all: https://archive.org/details/Vimanarcanakalpa1926

?I've also just uploaded the Indrajalavidyasamgraha:
https://archive.org/details/Indrajalavidyasamgraha1915
??

?
?
--
Professor Dominik Wujastyk <http://ualberta.academia.edu/DominikWujastyk>
?,?

Singhmar Chair in Classical Indian Society and Polity
?,?

Department of History and Classics <http://historyandclassics.ualberta.ca/>
?,?
University of Alberta, Canada
?.?

South Asia at the U of A:

?sas.ualberta.ca?
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Date: Tue, 9 May 2017 16:33:10 -1000
From: Jesse Knutson <jknutson@hawaii.edu>
To: Indology <indology@list.indology.info>
Subject: [INDOLOGY] thanks to Andrew Ollett
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Thanks to Andrew Ollett (yet another firm branch of the giant kalpataru
that is this list) for sending me the pdf.
--
Jesse Ross Knutson PhD
Assistant Professor of Sanskrit and Bengali, Department of Indo-Pacific
Languages and Literatures
University of Hawai'i at M?noa
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Message: 8
Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 14:29:35 +0200
From: Birgit Kellner <birgit.kellner@oeaw.ac.at>
To: indology@list.indology.info
Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] Buddhasrijnana's Abhisamaya commentary
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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 Vibh?ticandra ms of Praj??karagupta's
Pram??av?rttik?la?k?ra, or an ms of Dharmak?rti's V?dany?ya).

If, therefore, there is no record that he took photographs of the
Abhisamay?la?k?ra 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, P?ter-D?niel Sz?nt? via INDOLOGY
>> <indology@list.indology.info <mailto:indology@list.indology.info>> wrote:
>>
>> Rahul Sankrtyayan in his 1935 report wrote that he had seen and
>> photographed a 27-folio ms. of Buddha?r?j??na's Abhisamay?la?k?ra
>> commentary in Lhasa.
>>
>> Does anyone know what became of these photos? They do not seem to be
>> kept in the G?ttingen collection (I checked Bandurski's catalogue
>> relatively thoroughly).
>
>
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Director
Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia
Austrian Academy of Sciences
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Phone: +43-(0)1-51581-6420
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Message: 9
Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 13:47:59 +0100
From: P?ter-D?niel Sz?nt?        <peter.daniel.szanto@gmail.com>
To: birgit.kellner@oeaw.ac.at
Cc: P?ter-D?niel Sz?nt? via INDOLOGY     <indology@list.indology.info>
Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] Buddhasrijnana's Abhisamaya commentary
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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 Praj??prad?p?val? (actually, this is only a part,
the 8th chapter), just like its Tibetan translation, which is attributed to
J??nap?da, but these are two very different texts!

At first I thought that this must be the 'other' Buddha?r?j??na, who worked
among the Gnubs, but then I started seeing quite exact parallels in
Abhay?karagupta's Munimat?la?k?ra (and therefore in Da?abala?r?mitra's
Sa?sk?t?sa?sk?tavini?caya). I'm still not quite sure, but chances are that
this could be (a bit of) one of J??nap?da's juvenilia, composed after his
study with Haribhadra (whose influence is undeniable), when he was at
N?land?, before his (first) trip to the Konkan.

Is Mer? j?van y?tr? 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> 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 Vibh?ticandra ms of Praj??karagupta's
> Pram??av?rttik?la?k?ra, or an ms of Dharmak?rti's V?dany?ya).
>
> If, therefore, there is no record that he took photographs of the
> Abhisamay?la?k?ra 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, P?ter-D?niel Sz?nt? via INDOLOGY
>>> <indology@list.indology.info <mailto:indology@list.indology.info>>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Rahul Sankrtyayan in his 1935 report wrote that he had seen and
>>> photographed a 27-folio ms. of Buddha?r?j??na's Abhisamay?la?k?ra
>>> commentary in Lhasa.
>>>
>>> Does anyone know what became of these photos? They do not seem to be
>>> kept in the G?ttingen collection (I checked Bandurski's catalogue
>>> relatively thoroughly).
>>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
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>>
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> Director
> Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia
> Austrian Academy of Sciences
> Hollandstra?e 11-13/2
> A-1020 Vienna / Austria
> Phone: +43-(0)1-51581-6420
> Fax: +43-(0)1-51581-6410
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Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 15:41:48 +0200
From: Birgit Kellner <birgit.kellner@oeaw.ac.at>
To: P?ter-D?niel Sz?nt?  <peter.daniel.szanto@gmail.com>
Cc: P?ter-D?niel Sz?nt? via INDOLOGY     <indology@list.indology.info>
Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] Buddhasrijnana's Abhisamaya commentary
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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 P?ter-D?niel Sz?nt?:
> 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 Praj??prad?p?val? (actually, this is only a
> part, the 8th chapter), just like its Tibetan translation, which is
> attributed to J??nap?da, but these are two very different texts!
>
> At first I thought that this must be the 'other' Buddha?r?j??na, who
> worked among the Gnubs, but then I started seeing quite exact parallels
> in Abhay?karagupta's Munimat?la?k?ra (and therefore in
> Da?abala?r?mitra's Sa?sk?t?sa?sk?tavini?caya). I'm still not quite sure,
> but chances are that this could be (a bit of) one of J??nap?da's
> juvenilia, composed after his study with Haribhadra (whose influence is
> undeniable), when he was at N?land?, before his (first) trip to the Konkan.
>
> Is Mer? j?van y?tr? 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 Vibh?ticandra ms of Praj??karagupta's
>     Pram??av?rttik?la?k?ra, or an ms of Dharmak?rti's V?dany?ya).
>
>     If, therefore, there is no record that he took photographs of the
>     Abhisamay?la?k?ra 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, P?ter-D?niel Sz?nt? via INDOLOGY
>             <indology@list.indology.info
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>             <mailto:indology@list.indology.info>>> wrote:
>
>             Rahul Sankrtyayan in his 1935 report wrote that he had seen and
>             photographed a 27-folio ms. of Buddha?r?j??na's
>             Abhisamay?la?k?ra
>             commentary in Lhasa.
>
>             Does anyone know what became of these photos? They do not
>             seem to be
>             kept in the G?ttingen collection (I checked Bandurski's
>             catalogue
>             relatively thoroughly).
>
>
>
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