Buchbesprechungen Comptes Rendues

SR No.: 269429
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Author: W B Bollee
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Alsdorf's views as to the nature of Jaina bháşyas is, as far as I can see, completely ignored. These views Alsdorf expounds in the same article, in a passage which merits quotation (pp. 4-5):
Bollée, bhäsyas precede cúrnis and vrttis. Alsdorf's observations, as we have seen, suggest an altogether different chronological order?
The three Parts have each their own Preface and are each dedicated to a different person.
References:
ALSDORF, L. (1977). "Jaina exegetical literature and the history of the Jaina canon." Mahavira and His Teachings. Ed. A. N. Upadhye et al. Bombay: Bhagavan Mahavira 2500th Nirvana Mahotsava Samiti. Pp. 1-8
The average Nijusti numbers a few hundred gathas, and even to this size it has only grown by gradual insertion, part of which are called bhasyas. The same word bhasya, however, also designates a fourth class of exegetic works, each of which consists of several thousand Prakrit gathes. It was natural to assume, as did Leumann and Schubring, that the bhäsya was nothing but the result of the continued insertion of bharya verses into the Nijutti ... What this explanation fails to make clear is the relation between Bharya and Carni. According to Schubring, the Cürni is a commentary on the Nijurti as well as on the Bhasya, but in some cases the Carni follows immediately on the juri without a Bhasya in between ..IA comparison of the Vifesavasyakabhasya with the Avasyaka. curi leaves to me no doubt that the former is a mere versification of the prose tradition represented by the latter. I believe that, certainly in this case and probably also generally. Tika and Bhagya represent two parallel developments: the Tika changes the Prakrit language of the Cümni to Sanskrit bor keeps to the prose form the Bhasya versifies the traditional prose but keeps to the Prakrit language that the Bhasya really marks a new departure is shown by its very size which is a multiple of that of the average Nijjurti
BALBIR, Nalini (1993). Avašyaka-Studien. Introduction générale et Traductions Stuttgart: Franz Steiner.
BOLLEE, Willem B. (1994): Materials for an Edition and Study of the Pinda- and Oha Njutis of the Svetambara Jain Tradition. Volume II: Text and glossary. Stuttgart Franz Steiner. (Beiträge zur Südasienforschung, Südasien-Institut, Universitat Heidelberg, Band 162.)
BOLLEE, Willem B. (1995): The Nijutis on the Seniors of the Svetdmbara Siddhanta łyüranga, Dasaveyaliya, Urtarajjhiya and Siyagada. Text and selective glossary, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner. (Beiträge zur Südasienforschung, Sudasien-Institut, Universitat Heidelberg, Band 169.)
Bollée appears to disagree with Alsdorf, as is clear from his remark (Part 1 p. 3) "the additions (i.e., the bhasya stanzas, JB) ... contain key words of parables... which the later exegetical prose texts (cūrni, ţikå etc.) elaborate" (my emphasis, JB), but he does not say why. On the same page he criticises Jagdishchandra Jain's Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jaina Canon and Commentaries in the following words: "A disadvantage of this otherwise very valuable study is that its learned author rarely distinguishes between niryukti, bhásya, cürni and vulthus disregarding the great difference in time between the various strata of tradition." The way the four categories of exegetical literature are presented confirms that, for
BRUHN, Klaus (1998): "Bibliography of studies connected with the Avašyaka commentaries." In: Catalogue of the Papers of Ernst Leumann in the Institute for the Culture and History of Indian and Tibet, University of Hamburg. Compiled by Birte Plutat Stuttgart: Franz Steiner. (Alt- und Neu-Indische Studien, 49. Pp. 119-136.
LALWANI, Kastur Chand (1979): Kalpa Sutra of Bhadrabahu Svami. Translation and notes. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass.
Upadhye" (p. 282): Mahavira and his Teaching Adinath N. Upadhye ... [et al.] (eds.). Bombay (1977)
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On the Avasyakaniryukti and Visesavasyakabhasya, see now also Balbir, 1993: 38 ff. Bruhn, 1998