Outline of Avasyaka Literature

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

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E. Leumann, An outline of the Avasyaka Literature
G = Göttingen. In total only 22 items (124-145) described by Klatt (124-136) and Kielhorn (137-145) in the 'Verzeichnis der Handschriften im Preussischen Staate', Abteilung Hannover, Göttingen, vol.
I = India Office. From the older period there are just a few Jaina manuscripts available (e.g. items 2201 & 2909). However, the collection gifted by Bühler to the India Office in 1888, contains many that we cite with 'I Bühler' while retaining the Bühler numbering 1-321 (ZDMG, XLII 536552). I I = Indian Institute (Oxford). A collection that reached Sir M. Monier-Williams through Bühler and which now belongs to the Indian Institute; Jaina manuscripts between 30-40 in number' ZDMG, XLII 535. [J = Jacobi. An earlier used abbreviation (still found, p. 13°50) that had to be abandoned when Jacobi sold his collection to the British Museum.] [II°] L = Leumann. The collection contains prepared transcriptions and excerpts I have made, for which I have used the Latin alphabet throughout. As far as the items 1-90 are concerned, refer to ZDMG. VLII 454-464, for the items 91-128 refer to ZDMG. VLII 308-315; a list of further items follows on the next page. M = Rājendralāla Mitra's 'Notices of Sanskrit MSS.' We have followed Mitra's numbering of the manuscripts. In total there are 4,265 items of which about 390 belong to Jaina literature. O = Oxford (Bodleiana). The same is the case with the Jaina manuscripts in the Bodleiana as with those in the British Museum and in the India Office. There are also small earlier holdings to which, presently, a remarkable collection has been added that was collected by a German scholar in India. The German scholar in this case is Hultzsch. We cite the manuscripts he sold to the Bodleiana with O and the number that has been given to them in the published list (ZDMG XL, 11-26). We mention from the old holdings, for example, 'O Wilson 458'. P= Poona. In addition to the series I-XIX, which are listed in Shridhar Bhandarkar's catalogue of MSS in the Deccan College, there are seven more, which we number as XX-XXVI: P XX = Pet. Rep. III App. III. P XXIV = Bhandarkar Rep. 1897 P XXI =
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P XXV = Pet. Rep. VI p. 1-134 P XXII = Bhandarkar Rep. 1894. P XXVI = “ “ “ p. 135-144. P XXIII = Pet.
Rep. V. R = Royal Asiatic Society, London, 'Todd Collection'. A small but valuable collection on which information can be found in the Journal of the Roy.As.Soc. 1890 XXII 801-804 and in the ZDMG VLII 308-315. S= Strassburg. The Strassburg acquisitions were made, mainly, to cover the Jaina works for which no, or at least no adequate, manuscripts in Germany were available. This collection that has come into existence in the course of this project, should be compared only to the Sanskrit manuscripts in Tübingen, among which, as is well-known, rarities also dominate. Even when at our place, along with more or less rare Jaina works, some more common ones (e.g. the Anga texts 7-11 and the Uttaradhyayana) can be found, they had been bought, as a rule, for their intrinsic merits (such as extreme age, meticulousness, miniatures, etc.). Many of our texts have gradually arrived in Berlin, because, yearly, a large number of Jaina manuscripts are being bought there. As mentioned before, these are Svetâmbara as well as Digambara manuscripts that we own. More information can be obtained about the latter in WZ XI 297-312, a list of the previous ones follows on pages VII f.
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