Studies in Jain Literature

SR No.: 001868
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: V M Kulkarni
Publisher: Shardaben Chimanbhai Educational Research Centre
Publication Year: 2001
Total Pages: 114
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Literature, & Story
File Size: 14 MB

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298 STUDIES IN JAIN LITERATURE With the help of the above texts which preserve sentences, paragraphs and sometimes even long sections of the original text of the A. Bh. I wrote and published a series of articles entitled "Abhinavabharati : Text Restored". I also wrote and published a number of papers restoring scores and scores of corrupt Prakrit verses from Alamkara works, disfigured by corrupt passages, that are mentioned above. In restoring the corrupt verses / passages through my own experience I evolved the following principles of emendation : (i) First of all, to hunt the source of the corrupt passage. If the source is traced the emendation becomes universally acceptable. (ii) If the source is irretrievably lost, to try to find if the passage under consideration is cited in any other work on Poetics or Metrics or Grammar. (iii) If it is not so traced, to try to find if the verse in question is included in a later anthology, or any other poetic work by way of quotation. (iv) If by chance the corrupt verse is found quoted at two or more places in one and the same work, to reconstruct it by comparing the corrupt texts at the different places. (v) If no internal or external evidence be available, to take into consideration the immediate context and emend the text in consonance with the metre and the general or overall purport. (vi) To take into consideration parallel ideas found in other works in Sanskrit or Prakrit and emend the text accordingly. (vii) To take special care that the emended text is as far as possible very akin to the printed letters or words in the corrupt verse/passage. (viii) Failing all these alternatives, to emend the text, by using one's (creative) imagination (pratibha) keeping in mind the immediate and the larger context, the metre and the tenor of the concerned verse. (ix) To take particular care that the proposed emendation keeps arbitrariness to the minimum. (x) To consult, wherever possible, the manuscripts on which the printed text is based; if the editor of the printed text has read a word or quarter of a verse or part of it wrongly, the consulting of manuscripts may help one to recover the correct reading.