Prakrit Dhammapada

SR No.: 020564
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Benimadhab Barua, Sailendranath Mitra
Publisher: Satguru Publications
Publication Year: 1988
Total Pages: 331
Language: Sanskrit
Classification: Book_Devnagari
File Size: 14 MB

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Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
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Cf. Udänav., ch. 1. (" Impermanency "), v. 10:
"Some are old, and some are young, some are grown up; by degrees they all do disappear, like ripe fruit falling".
Notes.-Almost the whole of the second line of the above verse is missing from the extant Kharosthi Ms. A detached fragment, marked xxII, contains the line-end of a certain verse belonging to Plate Co. This fragment with the line-end-lapabh vabanana O-needs adjustment, but we know of no verse of the plate under notice into which it may fit. M. Senart, too, has no suggestions to offer. Let us suppose for argument's sake that his reading is correct and see if any meaning can be made out of it. It admits of a two-fold construction: either (1) lapa bhavabanana = Pāli lapa bhava-bandhanam, cut off the ties of existence', or (2) la pabhavabanana Pāli-some word ending with lã or zā plus pabhava-bandhana, 'the ties spring from'. But these interpretations afford us no clue to the adjustment of the fragment. Two assumptions are possible: either (1) that it contains the line-end of one of the first two Jara-verses which are missing, a verse similar, perhaps, in thought to the following stanza (Jataka, VI. p. 27) :
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Tattha ka nandi kā khiḍḍā kā rati kā dhanesanā, Kim me puttehi dărehi, rāja mutto'smi bandhanā;
or (2) chat it contains the line-end of the verse under discussion, in which latter case M. Senart's reading must be slightly altered as (pha)lapaka va banana or (ta)lapaka va banana. The reading phalapaka va banana (= Pali phalapakkaṁ va bandhana) is suggested by the final words of the Udanavarga verse: "like ripe fruit falling", and t lapaka va banana by the final words of a verse in the Pāli Udāna (I. 1. 10): talapakkam na bandhana. This simile of a ripe fruit or palm falling from the bunch is quite in keeping with our verse. Accordingly, the Prakrit stanza might be completed and read as follows:
ye vudha ye yu dahara ye ca majhima poruza anu(patati sarvi te ta)la paka va banana
-which will read in Pāli:
Ye vuddha ye ca dahara ye ca majjhimaporisă Annpatanti sabbe te talapakkamh va bandhanā.
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