Notes On Prajnaparamita Texts

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

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de Jong 199 Su. 123.17-18: asango 'sangataya, sango 'sangabhutataya. Ms. asanga asangataya, sargasangabhutataya. Tosaki reads: sangasangataya, sangasangabhutataya. Ti chags-pa med-pa la chags-pa yan-dag-pa ma yinpa'i phyir = asangasangabhutataya. C. reads: sangasangataya sangabhutataya. For 124.1 bandhabhutataya C. has bandhabandhataya bandhabhutataya. Su. 123.20: Abaddha iti. Ti rtogs-pa med-pa translates probably avedha but according to the context and C. the correct reading must be abandha and not abaddha. Abandha corresponds to asanga (123.18). Moreover, a corruption from abandha to avedha is more likely than. from abaddha to avedha. Su. 126.9-10: Tesam. kulaputranam kuladuhitrnam ca bhuyo marebhyah papiyobhyah (sic!) 'bhayam (Ms. marah papiyamso bhayam) pratikamksitavyam. Read: na ca bhuyo marat papiyaso bhayam, cf. Ti bdud sdig-can-gyis 'jigs-so snam-du dogs-par mi bgyi'o. A corruption of marat to marah has led to the change of papiyaso to papiyamso. Su. 126.17: Baddhasima Suvikrantavikramin maranam papiyasam. Read: baddha sima, cf. Ti bdud sdig-can rnams-kyi mtshams bcad-do. * Su. 128.4-5: vaistarikam ca karisyanti, (te te manusye]ndra manusy'ajaneyah, parigrhitas te. Read: karisyanti. Ye manusyendra manusy'ajaneyah, parigrhitas te. NOTES 1 The Short Prajnaparamita Texts, p. i, 2 Several passages have been discussed by Conze in his reviews of the editions of the Su. by Matsumoto (IIJ. 2, 1958, pp. 316-318) and Hikata (IIJ. 3, 1959, pp. 232- 234). His translation does not always follow Hikata's text. Tosani gives a list of corrections (pp. 316-315): 3 Cf. H. Jacobi, "Uber den nominalen Stil des wissenschaftlichen Sanskrits", IF, 14 (1903), p. 239 [= Kleine Schriften, Wiesbaden, p. 9]: "Es kann namlich bei gewissen Verben allgemeiner Bedeutung das Pradikatsnomen durch den Instrumentalis seines Abstraktums wiedergegeben werden, wo wir im Deutschen gewohnlich 'als' zu dem Pradikatsnomen setzen." See also L. Renou, Grammaire sanscrite (Paris, 1930), p. 293.