Outline of Avasyaka Literature

Author(s): Ernst Leumann, George Baumann
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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Appendices
I. Note on Leumann's transliteration
Leumann transliterates in a different manner vowels which are long by nature (noted, as usual, as ā, ī, u, e, o) and vowels which are the result of a contraction coming from sandhi (noted as â, î, û, ê, ô; e.g. käyôtsarga). This distinction, which was often observed in early, especially German, indology, has now mostly gone out of use. Moreover, in agreement with phonological analysis of Sanskrit and Prakrit, Leumann (and his school, Walther Schubring, for instance) never write "n" or "ñ" for the guttural and the palatal nasals respectively. They write only "n". The reason is that before a guttural a nasal can only be guttural, before a palatal it can only be palatal. Hence there is no need to use a specific sign to mark them. Only the cerebral nasal is marked as "n". Leumann explains this innovation ("Neuerung") in the Postface (p. 164) to his edition of the Aupapātika Sūtra (Leipzig, 1883). This system has been retained throughout the present volume.
Introductory essay and tools by Nalini Balbir
II. Guide to the abbreviations used by Leumann in the Übersicht (in alphabetical order)
A superscribed "a" after a number (e.g. 1) refers to the first line of a verse; a superscribed "b" to the second line.
Abhay.: = Abhayadeva (9th cent.), the Jaina commentator on "nine Angas" Ac. Acaranga-sūtra
Adh.
Adhyāyana
Ait. Br.
Airyāp. Ārādh.
Aupap.
Aitareya-Brāhmaṇa
Airyāpathikī
Ārādhanā
Aupapātikasūtra (reference to the paragraphs as numbered in Leumann's edition; see Appendix VIII below for bibliographical details)
Āv. = Avaśyaka
avac. = Avacur(n)i
Av.-Erz. E. Leumann, Die Avasyaka-Erzählungen, Leipzig, 1897
Av.-niry. = Avaśyaka-niryukti
B followed by a four-digit number = Berlin manuscript
Bh. Bhakti
Bhag. Bhagavatīsūtra
Bhagavadg. = Bhagavadgītā
Brh. or BṛhaddH. = BṛhaddHarivamsapurāṇa, i.e. Jinasena's Harivamsapurāṇa Brh. Ār. Up. Brhad-Aranyaka-upaniṣad
C= Avaśyaka-curṇi
ChandUp. = Chandogya-upaniṣad
D (recension) = Devanagarī
8 = Second Devanagarī recension
Daś. Daśavaikālika
Daśāśrutask. = Daśāśrutaskandha
Dev. = Devendra, commentator of the Uttaradhyayana-sūtra
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