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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in tief zu beklagender Weise nicht unterlassen, das in der Anlage und durch Beigaben vielleicht allzu groß gedachte Werk abzuschließen, so würde seine Jaina-Forschung in diesem ihre Krönung gefunden haben. Es ist aber zu hoffen, daß es in Kürze möglich sein wird, wenigstens den fertig vorliegenden Teil zu veröffentlichen." To this day a guide to or critical analysis of the Übersicht does not exist. Such an analysis could also serve as a substitute for a translation into English. For information about the manuscripts used for the Übersicht the reader is referred to pp.I-IV of the book. The data given by LEUMANN are heterogeneous. They are partly connected with the Avasyaka project and partly with the general project of a collection of Jaina manuscripts at Strasbourg. Only a fraction of LEUMANN'S Avasyaka manuscripts belongs to Strasbourg, and conversely only a fraction of the Strasbourg collection consists of Avaśyaka manuscripts. Furthermore, there is a list of the Svetāmbara manuscripts at Strasbourg (pp. III-IV), whereas the corresponding list of Digambara manuscripts had already been published by LEUMANN in vol.11 (1897) of the Vienna Oriental Journal, as mentioned on p.Ir in the paragraph for Strassburg. Finally, LEUMANN lists not only manuscripts but also copies (Abschriften and Auszüge) prepared by him from manuscripts. Refer for further information on pp.II-IV to CJM: 12-13. LEUMANN's printing project had consisted of four parts (mentioned by SCHUBRING and quoted above). SCHUBRING published the Obersicht in 1934 along with a Vorwort on p.c, and in this case the original print is no longer extant. The other three parts are kept as unpublished unica in the Hamburger Seminar: the thirty-six Lichtdrucktafeln (no.189). the Prarika-Liste zum Visesavasyaka-Bhasya (no.187), and the Excerpte aus der Silänka-Handschrift (10.188). Besides the Obersicht (1934) and the Erzählungen (1897, unfinished), one Avašyaka article (1885) and one Avašyaka note (1894) have been published by LEUMANN. Most of the Āvasyaka material in the Papers has been indexed in the present catalogue under Avaśyakaheadings. Some of these titles (e.g. no.176: "general plan of the Obersicht", "lose Zettel zum Gedruckten") are probably more directly connected with the Obersichr than others. However, there are no indications that any part of the material relevant to the Obersicht had been ready for the press (Ubersicht: C, lines 2-15). Furthermore, LEUMANN always made liberal contributions to publications of colleagues, and such contributions are also found in two publications which are connected with the Av.-literature (JACOBI 1932 and TAWNEY 1895). Refer for LEUMANN's Avaśyaka inedita also to BALBIR 1993a: 26-30 and 93-97 (93-97: observations on the Curņi.s, edited ibid.). M. WINTERNITZ (Jaina Literature: 1920/1933) did not know the Übersicht which was published in 1934. SCHUBRING's Lehre (1935) devotes a separate section ( 55) to the Avaśyaka Niryukti, but mentions the Ubersicht only in a few lines. However, the text of the Doctrine (1962) supplies in $ 55 additional information about LEUMANN's research and also contains other textual changes. LEUMANN's name as a Jainologist is so closely connected with the Avašyaka issue that we sometimes forget how many other Jaina texts he has studied as well. His main publication outside the Avaśyaka field was a substantial article on the Daśavaikälika Sutra and Niryukti (1892). In another article he studied the story of Citta and Sambhuta as recorded inter alia in the Uttaradhyayana literature; see LEUMANN 1891 (also ALSDORF 1957 and OBERLIES 1996). Both the Erzählungen and the Obersicht demonstrate LEUMANN's familiarity with the Bșhatkalpabhäşya. In spite of its specialized subject, even the Obersicht shows the wide range of LEUMANN'S Jainological (and Indological) interests.
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