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A Recent Study of Bhaganerstra Reviewed
noticed by Schubring who made & special study of them as occurring to Acardngasūtra (I Srutashandha), Prof Deleu's study of them as occurring in Bhagalan is a mighty step in the same direction illustrations of both are quoted by Prof Deleu in his Introduction but stray illustralsons i hr not convince a skeptical reader What is needed is a careful sud of the Conspectus glven at the end of this Introduction and taking noxeuf all the relevant cases Prof Deleu has been able to discover Then Prof Deleu bas detected on his own certain types of editorial work inaaship This he find. that at places a passage serves as an introduction or 49 & cunclutun to a group of passages, at places a passage recal) (recurs to us Prof Ixeleu's phrase) an earlier occurring passage, at places ho passages cafrane the intervening group of passages, at places (40 passages are found situated in a parallel position of these too, all the cases Prof Deleu has been able to discover are taken note of in the Conspectus Again, Prof Deleu has drawn an empirical deduction to the effect that certain topics are usually found towards the beginning of a fataka, certain others towards the end of a jataha He makes a catalogue of such topics and takes role of their at due places in the Conspectos Lastly, Prof Deleu points out that "at least one group of texts was ordered according to the numerical stres 'one, two, three,' and at one time this series most probably went og in the immediataly following texts" (P51) What these texts are is meahpad and they are taken note of at due places 10 Conspectus All this makes Prof Deleu's Conspectus a really thrilling document Only let us not craggerate its importance For a close perusal of this Conspectus should convince one that the editors of Bhagavani had a rather strange nosion of an eur's job And even if several generations of editors bale worked on this text they are all proved to have shared a broadly similar mentality Tale on example The passages which are of the form of a bare relerence to other texts like Prajnapana etc could not have been composed carlier than the composition of these texts themselves which are all of a more or less late origin And yet Prof Deleu's Conspectus dicarly shows that the occurrence of these reference passages in the text is governed by the same subsidorutlon as that of other passages Similarly, the occurrence of tbe passages which on Independent grounds are proved to be of a late origin is govergod by the same considerations as that of the passages of contrary nature So, Prof Deleu's Conspectus serves one great nogave purpose in that it convlaces one that the things it brings to light are of th direct value to one seeking to work out a chronological strenfication of the Bhagavatt passages, Perhaps, it is not accidental that in the main budy of Prof Deleu's work--that is in the part containing a summary analysis of the Bhagavani (occasionally accompanied by explanatory notes)-the problems portaining to the historical evaluation of Jaina doctrices Ire Jaised almost
