Bodhisattva Vadana Kalpalata And The Saddantavadana

Author(s): J W De Jong
Publisher: J W De Jong

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The Bodhisattvāvadānakalpalatā
and the Şaddantāvadāna
J. W. de Jong
THE Bodhisattvāvadānakalpalatāl was published in the Bibliotheca Indica in two volumes. Sarat Chandra Das and Pandit Hari Mohan Vidyābhūshaņa edited the first five fascicles of Volume 1 (Calcutta, 1888-1895, pp. xlii + 1-442) and the first five fascicles of Volume 2 (Calcutta, 1890-1897, pp. 1-480). After a long interval, publication was resumed by Das in 1906, and with Satis Chandra Vidyābhūşaņa he edited the remaining fascicles of both volumes (Vol. I, Fascicles 6-13, pp. 443-1171, Calcutta, 1906-1913; Vol. II, Fascicles 6-11, pp. 481-1093 +13 pp., Calcutta, 1910-1913). In 1959 P. L. Vaidya reprinted the Sanskrit text in Volumes 22 and 23 of The Buddhist Sanskrit Texts.
Das's edition is based upon a Tibetan blockprint which contains both the Sanskrit text in Tibetan transliteration and the Tibetan translation. According to him this blockprint consists of 620 folios and was printed in 1662–1663.2 In editing the Bodhisattvāvadānakalpalatā, Das has done some rearrangement of the text. In the Peking edition of the Tanjur the Bodhisattvāvadānakalpalatā occupies Vol. 93 of the Mdo-'grel.3 Story 107 ends on page 346al. Then follows Somendra's introduction to the last tale composed by himself: 346al-347b2 (=Das Vol. 2, pp. 1008-1015). This tale oc