Bibliography Of Studies Connected With Avasyaka Commentaries

SR No.: 269496
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Klaus Bruhn
Publisher: Klaus Bruhn
Total Pages: 18
Language: English
Classification: Article
File Size: 2 MB

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expected the reader to know his earlier Daśavaikälika study (1892). The Übersicht has 64 over-sized pages (each page in two columns with more than 75 lines), the format being dictated by the planned facsimile reproduction of a very old Avaśyaka manuscript (details below). No less than 26 pages of the Übersicht (about 40% of the whole) are devoted to Jinabhadra. The work is unfinished and the print ended after the first two words of a new sentence (removed by W. SCHUBRING in the publication: Übersicht: p.C). More than one monograph could be derived from the Übersicht, but it is not a monograph itself. Below we present a partial overview of the components of the work.
Pages A-R. Title, Preface etc. Pages I-IV. Manuscripts and copies (Abschriften). Pages 1-6. "Āv.". "Av.2" (Şadāvasyaka: Svetämbara tradition), and "Av." (Kriyakalāpa and Sravakapratikramana: Digambara tradition). "Av." is a sophisticated term. It stands (i) for the lost prototype of the Av. Sūtra, (ii) for the remnants of the prototype as preserved by the Svetambara and Digambara traditions, and (iii) for the inflated text as preserved by Haribhadra and the Av. Curņi. See Übersicht: 1524-26; 19--196. In the Av. Sutra (Haribhadra with Cůrni), Sections I-III are preserved in a form which is close to the prototype, whereas Sections IV-VI are inflated. LEUMANN's notation of section and tradition is as follows (taking Section I as an example): "Av.I" ("Āv.") - "Av.12" (".v.2") - "Av." ("Āv..
--> SUMMARY of Av.IV-VI: Übersicht: 213-49. Columns 6-8". Sections I-III (Āv., Av.?, Av.').
--> TEXT AND TRANSLATION of Av.I-III: Übersicht: 64-8. Columns 8-14. Monographic study of Section III. Columns 14-15 Columns 15/16.12. Complete text of Mülăcăra VII, an earlier version of the Av. Niryukti (Digambara tradition). Columns 194-230 ...... Columns 23-27. Bhadrabahu (i.e. Bh., the teacher of Sthūlabhadra): the literary sources (Av.-commentaries et alia). Columns 27-29...... Columns 29-31. The four layers ("redactions") of the Av. Niryukti. Columns 31356. Jinabhadra. The Visesavaśyaka Bhåşya and its commentaries (31-55): Extensive analysis. Short analyses of the other works of Jinabhadra, viz. Kşetrasamása, Samgrahani, and Viśesanavati (55-56). LEUMANN's text on the Visesaņavati consists of no more than four sentences which conclude the Übersichr (56, lines 72-79). It is supplemented by no.306 of the present catalogue.
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