Prakrit Dhammapada

Author(s): Benimadhab Barua, Sailendranath Mitra
Publisher: Satguru Publications

Page 9

www.kobatirth.orgAcharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
including the Udanavarga, V. Fausboll (who edited and translated the text in Latin in 1855), F. Max Muller, H.Oldenberg, E. Senart, H. Luders, Sten Konow, H.W.Bailey, R. Pischel, W.W. Rockhill, N.P. Chakravarty, La Vallee Poussin, James Gray Sylvain Levi, Radhakrishnan, Narada Thera and John Brough are only a few names to mention here. The latest work published in India is the Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dharmapada by N.S.Shukla (Patna, K.P.Jayaswal Research Institute, 1979).
The present work began by the editors as a disgression from working on a monograph on Asoka's Dhamma with encouragement and support by Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee, the great champion of Buddhist Researches and one of the distinguished Vice-Chancellors of the Calcutta University.
The present work is mainly based on E. Senart's publications of the Kharosthi manuscript of the text on the basis of fragments discovered by Petroffsky and Dutreuil de Rhins, Russian
and French scholars. This is the only texti found in the Kharosthi script in Prakrit Dialect. All other texts are generally found in Pali, Sanskrit or Mixed Sanskrit. Barua and Mitra have published it with improved readings, adding copious notes and cross refernce. Epigraphical comparision proves the date of manuscaript to be the second century.
European scholars, especially Grunwedel, Stein and Pelliot. by their successive missions to Chinese Turkestan in the Central Asia brought together numerous fragments of manscripts of the Udanavarga which is a collection of
For Private And Personal