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Today's Topics:
1. Essays and Studies in the Art of Kucha (Eli Franco)
2. Vidvanmodini (Richard G. Salomon)
3. Re: Vidvanmodini (Lubin, Tim)
4. Re: Vidvanmodini (Olivelle, J P)
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Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2020 22:51:45 +0100
Subject: [INDOLOGY] Essays and Studies in the Art of Kucha
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With apologies for cross-posting,
Dear friends and colleagues,
It is my pleasure to announce the following publication:
Essays and Studies in the Art of Kucha by Ines Konczak-Nagel and
Monika Zin. Dev Publishers & Distributors, New Delhi.
This is the first of seventeen volumes scheduled for the series
?Leipzig Kucha Studies?; it unites some results of the long-term
research project (2016?2030) ?Buddhist Murals of Kucha on the Northern
Silk Road?, which focuses on an impressive corpus of wall paintings
datable to approximately the fifth to tenth centuries CE and located
in the Buddhist cave complexes of the ancient kingdom of Kucha (Ku?a).
For more details see:
With best wishes,
Eli Franco
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Prof. Dr. Eli Franco
Institut f?r Indologie und Zentralasienwissenschaften
Schillerstr. 6
04109 Leipzig
Ph. +49 341 9737 121, 9737 120 (dept. office)
Fax +49 341 9737 148
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Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2020 16:47:29 -0800
Subject: [INDOLOGY] Vidvanmodini
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Dear colleagues,
Does anyone have a copy, or know of a copy available in North America, of
the V?si??ha-dharmas?tra with the commentary Vidvanmodin? by Kr???a
Dharm?dhik?r?, published in Benares, 1878 [according to the reference in
Patrick Olivelle, *Dharmas?tras*, p. xvi]? I have been unable to find it
via the usual channels.
In particular, I am interested in the commentary on the rules for partition
of the estate in 17.40-54.
Thanks in advance,
Rich Salomon
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Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 02:41:55 +0000
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Rich,
On p. 632 of Prof. Olivelle?s edition and translation (Oxford, 2000) he gives more information about this very rare publication, there dated ?Samvat 1916 (= 1858 CE)?; you may be interested in his further comments on references to two no longer extant older commentaries:
Ban. ed. A hand-written pothi-style publication with an original commentary by
Dharm?dhik?ri Krsnapandita dated Samvat 1916 (= 1858 CE); 25 copies of this were printed
in Benares. I obtained a copy from the Indian Institute Library of the Bodleian in Oxford.
Devan?gari; 134 folios; 10 lines on a page; approximately 50 aksaras on a line.
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Vasistha has been less faithfully preserved than the other Dharmasutras, probably because it
lacked an early commentary. It appears that one Yaj?asvamin did write a commentary on
Vasistha; his comments on VaDh 21.13 are cited by Govinda in his gloss on BDh 2.3.50. L.
Sriniv?s?ch?rya, the editor of the 1907 Mysore editon of the BDh, says in his introduction (p.
ii) that Yaj?asvamin lived after Y?davaprak?sa but before Y?muna and R?m?nuja. He bases
this conclusion on a comment by Ved?ntadesika in his T?tparyacandrik? sub-commentary on
R?m?nuja's commentary on the Bhagavad G?ta giving a list of commentators on the G?t?
prior to Y?muna and R?m?nuja: Pis?ca, Rantideva, Gupta, Samkara, Y?davaprak?sa,
Bh?skara, N?r?yan?rya, and Yaj?asvamin. The commentary of Yaj?asvamin has not
survived. There appears also to have been an ancient commentary by Bhartyaj?a. It is cited in
several medieval texts: KKT-G 5; KKT-Nk 186; KKT-M 20. But this commentary has not
survived.
If anyone has a copy of that pothi-style publication, I too would like to see it.
Best,
Tim
Timothy Lubin
Professor of Religion and Adjunct Professor of Law
Chair of the Department of Religion
204 Tucker Hall
Washington and Lee University
Date: Wednesday, February 19, 2020 at 7:48 PM
Subject: [INDOLOGY] Vidvanmodini
Dear colleagues,
Does anyone have a copy, or know of a copy available in North America, of the V?si??ha-dharmas?tra with the commentary Vidvanmodin? by Kr???a Dharm?dhik?r?, published in Benares, 1878 [according to the reference in Patrick Olivelle, Dharmas?tras, p. xvi]? I have been unable to find it via the usual channels.
In particular, I am interested in the commentary on the rules for partition of the estate in 17.40-54.
Thanks in advance,
Rich Salomon
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Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 14:15:09 +0000
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Hi Rich:
I have a photocopy of this edition. I could bring it to Boston for the AOS if you can wait that long, or try to see whether I can make a digital copy of it, at least the commentary on the s?tras you need.
Patrick
Dear colleagues,
Does anyone have a copy, or know of a copy available in North America, of the V?si??ha-dharmas?tra with the commentary Vidvanmodin? by Kr???a Dharm?dhik?r?, published in Benares, 1878 [according to the reference in Patrick Olivelle, Dharmas?tras, p. xvi]? I have been unable to find it via the usual channels.
In particular, I am interested in the commentary on the rules for partition of the estate in 17.40-54.
Thanks in advance,
Rich Salomon
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