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108
Eli Franco
Sauträntika is itself problematic. DÉMIEVILLE and BAREAU, for instance, consider this text to belong to the Bahuśrutiya school.150 Furthermore, our understanding of the very term Sautrāntika has radically changed since MIYASAKA wrote his paper. It is now believed that this term does not apply to any specific school, but that it rather stands for various Abhidharmikas who accept only the Buddha's sermons as authoritative. As such the term can be applied to practically any school except the Sarvästiväda.151
Whatever the case may be, the above materials amply demonstrate how important SPITZER's transcriptions of the lost fragments are for our understanding of the text. Next to the fragments of folio 375 and 376 (reproduced above) I was able to identify further fragments belonging to folios 379-387. Thus, combining SPITZER's transcription and the surviving fragments we can gain a relatively good understanding of the structure and content of folios 369-387. I hope to publish these additional fragments soon.
150
Cf. BAREAU, Les Sectes, p. 81 and further references in n. 1.
151 Cf. FRANCO, Dharmakirti on Compassion and Rebirth, Wien 1997, p. 85, n. 51 (containing
a summary of a personal communication by Professor SCHMITHAUSEN).
Page Nr in Miyasaka 1962
673
GC
675
44
44
44
44
0
676
#
#4
44
44
K
EL
C
677
44
Lost Fragments of the Spitzer Manuscript
Fragment Nr in Miyasaka 1962 untransliterated reproduction
29b
2061-3
5363
48a3
23a1-2
23b1-3
17b1-2
59a2
5962
58b3
27a1-2
28a3
27b1
28b1-2
27a3
51a1-51b3
9(a or b?)2-3
31,al-3
36,al-3
36,b1-3
36,b1-3
Page Nr in Spitzer's Nachlass' 46, a
2, fol. 371 62-3
3, fol. 374 b1-3
-
22, 63
-
52, al-2
1, fol. 369, b1-2
1, fol. 370, b2-3!
1, fol. 369, al
1, fol. 370, al-2
1, fol. 369, b3
33 (a and b in reversed order)
Fragment/Frame
Nr of SHT-810
112a2
11262
109
11a3(?) (upamanāt instead of abhavar)
98b2-3
138a/9.1-3
138b/2.1-3
138b/1.1-3
138a/10.1-3
Only lost fragments are noted here; i.e. if a fragment exists in SHT-810, a reference to the Nachlass is not given even if the fragment has been transcribed by SPITZER.
