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Ludwig Alsdorf's Studies in the Āryā"
Klaus Bruhn
L. ALSDORF's studies in the äryä, published more than thirty years ago, are among his most remarkable contributions to Indian philology. However, the character of the material, the scattered form of the publication, and ALSDORF's high expectations from his reader (more obvious in this case than elsewhere) seem to call for a consolidated and systematic review. Such a review can supplement the earlier efforts in the field of ALSDORF reviewing. We have therefore prepared the present paper which is primarily a supplement to a booklet published in 1990 (Ludwig Alsdorf and Indian Studies). However, it may also be viewed in the wider context of the publication of L. ALSDORF's Kleine Schriften. The first volume of his Kleine Schriften was published in 1974, and a second volume is forthcoming.
It seems practical to consider A.'s studies in the Prakrit āryā and in the Pali äryä separately (652 and 4). His studies in the Prakrit äryä clearly point beyond the text pieces from Uttarādhyayana which he actually examined, and for this reason we have tried to describe the wider context of his Prakrit studies in a separate section ($ 1). On the other hand, we have included two short contributions on the āryā of Buddhist Sanskrit texts in the section on the Pali ärya ($ 4).
$ 1. Studies in the Prakrit Arya I (the Context) ALSDORF's work on the Prakrit áry concerns mainly classical Arya.s appearing as late elements in the group of the four so-called senior texts of the Svetämbara canon (Acāra, Sūtrakrta, Dasavaikälika, Uttaradhyayana). However, Utt. is the only text to have an appreciable number of arya.s (see ALSDORF Ut: 5-6). Utt. has thirty-six chapters, and A. has published five contributions on Utt. altogether: three articles dealing with one chapter each (1955, 1957, 1962), one article dealing with four chapters (1962), and a monograph dealing with seven chapters (1966). Not in all but in most
We are grateful to C. CAILLAT who provided a short note on L. ALSDORF for the present paper. This note has been appended to our review of the Etudes Jaina on pp. 41-42.
BERLINER INDOLOGISCHE STUDIEN (BIS) 9/10.1996, pp. 7-53.
