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English translation by George Baumann
M 2626 & 2677. - Whether the bṛhat-Kṣetrasamāsa-vṛtti, written in 1135 by Siddha that will deal with Jinabhadra's Kṣetrasamāsa has any text-critical importance the future will show. The only manuscript of this commentary traced up to now is A II 3. In any case, more important is the Kṣetrasamāsa-curni found in old libraries in India, even more so, if it should comment on a Kṣetrasamāsa that is different from Jinabhadra's.
Jinabhadra's Kṣetrasamāsa (Ks') was simplified quite early in such a manner that only about one-fourth of the part dealing with the Jambudvipa (I) was kept and from the remaining parts (II-V) nothing was preserved. The excerpt, thus gained, was the most appreciated geography-booklet of the Svetâmbara-s from 900-1300 in spite of its fragmentary character as an anonymous Kṣetrasamāsa (ks). Since 1400 it has hardly been copied anymore which is why it has been presented only on palm-leaf manuscripts. Due to its former popularity it has been handed down in numerous forms:
a 109-strophic recension (ks'), commented on by Haribhadra,
a 93-strophic (ks) we know from P XII 7624,
a 86-strophic (ks) preserved in A I 749 & 178';
apparently, fragmentary is the present text-form in A I 844 as it ends with ks2 53 (but even then it is supposed to contain, in total, 91 stanzas); Varieties of ks2 or ks3 are apparently available in A I 423 (with 90 stanzas) & 778 (with 86
stanzas).
The recension ks' is available twice in a ms at the Indian Institute: firstly, by itself (I 13), and, secondly, in Haribhadra's commentary (I 14), which is also available in P XII 3971 & XXIII 815.
More recently, ks has been raised to the position of a complete Kṣetrasamāsa since someone has freely supplemented the missing parts II-V, and, besides, has placed two gāthā-series into I, the first of which (30-32) stems from the Jambūdvīpasamgrahaṇī and the second (52-71) deals with the 30 bhoga-bhūmio. Thus, the completed Kṣetrasamāsa (Ks2) consists of 188 gāthā-s in manuscript B 1749 used as a basis by us:
I-134, II 161, III-167, IV 173, V-188a,
of 198 gāthā-s in manuscript F:
I-144, II 171, III 177, IV 183, V 198a.
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F
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17-20
28-130
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10
16
7 f.
11
14
16-27
21 f. 23-34 35
15
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How the versions of the mentioned Kṣetrasamāsa-writings, available at the moment, are related among themselves and to the Jambūdvīpasamgrahaṇī, can be known from the stanzaconcordance detailed in the following columns. With ks the gatha-s that belong only to manuscript F have been given as additional stanzas: 3 (F4-6), 5' (= F 9), etc.
1-3
In contrast to ks as well as to more modern adaptions of the material, Ks is generally called brhat- or vṛddha-Kṣetrasamāsa.
Among the more recent Kṣetrasamāsa-treatises, if we leave out ks2, we next find Śrīcandra's Kṣetrasamāsa (Ks3), which, in the first [56] and last gāthā is called Samayakhetta-pavibhāga and is supposed to be an excerpt from the "large Kṣetrasamāsa” (mahayaKhettasa-māsa), i.e. from Ks'.
It has 341 gatha-s in A I 1981.
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