Outline of Avasyaka Literature

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

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Rep. = Report RV = Rg Veda S followed by a number = Strasbourg manuscript Şaddarśanasam. = Haribhadra's Şaddarśanasamuccaya commented upon by
Gunaratna Sadv. Āv.-v. = Şadvidha Avasyaka-vidhi Sāmāy. = Sāmāyika Samav. = Samavāyāngasūtra Sandrap. = sāndrapada (alternate name of the metre called śrī, cf. Hemacandra,
Chando'nuśāsana II.132) Sanghadāsa = the author of the Kalpabhāsya Sānty. = Sāntisūri, commentator of the Uttarādhyayana-sutra Śārd. = śārdūlavikrīdita Sarvadars. = Sarvadarśanasamgraha Šāstravārttāsam. = Haribhadra's Šāstravārttāsamuccaya Satap. Br. = Satapatha Brāhmana Sikh. = śikhariņi Śīl. = Śīlānka, the commentator on the Višesāvaśyaka-bhāsya skandh. = skandhaka (a Prakrit metre, of the type dvipadī, consisting in 32 moras, cf.
Hemacandra, Chando'nuśāsana IV.13) śl. = śloka sragdh. = sragdharā Śrīt./Śrītil. = Śrītilaka = Tilakācārya (12th-13th cent.), a Sanskrit commentator on the
Āvaśyaka-niryukti, not yet published Shăn. = Sthānāngasutra Sūtr. = Sūtrakıtāngasūtra ŚvetUp. = Svetāśvatara-upanişad TĀr. = Taittirīya-Aranyaka Tattvârtha = Umāsvāti's Tattvārthasūtra TBr. = Taittirīya-brāhmaṇa TS = Taittirīya-samhitā Udg. = Udgīti Up. = Upanişad Upāsakâdhy. = Upāsakādhyayana Utt. or Uttarâdhy. = Uttarādhyayanasūtra Vait. = vaitālīya Vamś. = Vamsasthā vas. = vasantatilaka Vas. & Vasun. = Vasunandin, the commentator of Vattakera's Mūlācāra Viś. or Vises. = Višeşāvaśyakabhāsya VS = Vājasaneyi-samhitā Vyavah.-bh. = Vyavahāra-bhāsya WZ.: Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes Yaśastil. = Somadeva's Yaśastilakacampū ZDMG: Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft
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