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UTTARAJJHAYANA STUDIES (AN EDITION AND TRANSLATION OF THE FOURTH AJJHAYAŅA, WITH A METRICAL ANALYSIS AND NOTES)
K. R. Norman, Cambridge, England
1. Introduction
The importance of the Uttarajjhayaņa-sutta was recognised by European scholars at an early date, and a translation of the whole text was included by H. Jacobi in his translations of Jaina Sūtras (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. XLV, Oxford 1895), while individual ajjhayaņas were studied by E, Leumann (WZKM, V, 111 ff. VI, I ff.) and J. Charpentier (ZDMG LXII, 725-47, LXIII, 171-88; WZKM XXIV, 63 ff.). Both Jacobi (Ahmedabad 1911) and Charpentier (Uppsala 1922) published editions of the whole text. In more recent years L. Alsdorf published a series of studies of the Uttarajjhayana-sutta (Ind. Ling. 16 (1955) 21-28; S. K. Belvalkar Felicitation Vol. (1957), 202-8; W. Norman Brown Commemoration Vol. (1962), 8-17; IIJ VI (1962), 110-36), and also a monograph on its Aryā stanzas ( The Arya Stanzas of the Uttarajjhāyā, Mainz 1966). In a series of articles entitled 'Middle Indo-Aryan Studies', which have appeared in the Journal of the Oriental Institute (Baroda) since 1960, I have discussed a number of words occurring in the Uttar ajjhayana-sutta, and in the fourteenth of that series I have examined the evidence for believing that a number of traces of the dual number occur therein. I have also published a metrical analysis, with text and translation, of the eighth ajjhayana, which is written in the Old āryā metre (Mahavira and His Teachings, Bombay 1977, 9-19). As part of my continuing work upon this very important text, I wish in this paper to examine the fourth ajjhayana, which is written in a mixture of Triştubh and Jagati pādas.
No MSS were directly available to me for the production of a critical edition, but I have made use of the following printed editions, and I have noted the readings of Jacobi's edition and the MSS used by Charpentier, as quoted in his edition: C - Charpentier's edition (Uppsala, 1922)
the edition by R. D. Vadekar and N. V. Vaidya (Poona, 1954). This is a corrected version of C, with some better readings taken
from Devendra's commentary. S = Suttāgame, Vol. II, the Sthänakvāsi edition by Muni Sri Phulchandji Mahārāj (Gurgaon, 1954).
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