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ŚRĀVAKABHŪMI
the seventeen gradual steps in the career of propitiation and accomplishment (śikṣā and sādhana) of a Bodhisattva from the Yogācāra point of view. While the first five bhūmis or sections of the work have already been published', the Bodhisattvabhūmi has recently appeared in its full form in the present series and the remaining bhūmis are also in the process of publication?.
The Srāvakabhūmi forms the XIII section of the YBS, and is being presented here in the following pages for the first time in its Sanskrit original.
Thus we have ample reasons to believe that the whole corpus of the YBS will soon be available in its original form.
2. The Critical Apparatus
The present edition of SBh. is based on the photo
(contd. from p. xliii)
भूमिः । श्रुतमयी भूमिः । चिन्तामयी भूमिः । भावनामयी भूमिः । श्रावकभूमिः । प्रत्येकबुद्धभूमिः । बोधिसत्त्वभूमिः । सोपधिका भूमिः । निरुपधिका भूमिः । graat: ACHAT: FARTI Taryfafeyoud l; “Sometimes, this work is called Saptadaśabhūmiśāstra owing to the fact that the seventeen bhūmis ('stages') of the mind are mainly dealt with herein', ibid., Intro., p. 7, cp. also HIL, II,354 (para 2), BDD,
p. 168. 1. Ed. by MM. Pt. V. Bhattācārya, Calcutta University, 1957. 2. Ed. by N. Dutt, Tibetan Sanskrit Works Series, Vol. VII, K. P.
Jayaswal Institute, Patna, 1966; Dr. Dutt gives full information regarding the previous editions and studies of Bodhisattvabhūmi; Vide, his Introduction, p. 5, the previous edition of Urai Wogi
hara was incomplete; see also, HIL, II.354, fn. 2. 3. I learn that Prof. Anantalal Thakur has edited these bhūmis.
