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Sectional Studies
K. Bruhn
between the various available or desirable "text monographs" (editions, translations, analyses), since they tell us where a difficult word occurs. The glossaries of the JainaAgama-Series are an important step in this direction, although they record only the Prakrit words. In the long run, glossaries of the type found in SCHUBRING Ac will be best suited to meet the requirements of further research.
We define the second strategy, quantity management, in the first place with reference to the exegetical or pseudo-exegetical literature on the Svetāmbara canon. Until now the general discussion on the vast exegetical literature was not exactly based on, but closely connected with, a descriptive model prepared by E. LEUMANN (Da: 586-92; JACOBI Pa: vi-vii). It seemed that this model described the broad development of the exegetical literature and that it assigned, roughly speaking, each text a place within the whole ensemble. But while LEUMANN was the first to publish such a model, he was also the first to realize that his model was only a first step and that the character of the texts required highly technical analyses, mostly in tabular form. LEUMANN'S model has been quoted and discussed on more than one occasion (BRUHN BI: 61), but only very few publications after LEUMANN have supplied additional technical analyses.
Another large body of Jaina literature is formed by the Digambara texts on the doctrine of karma (ALSDORF Et: 88-94). It would be easy to add further examples of almost explosive" literary developments, but they are not exactly on the scale of the two examples just mentioned. Therefore we refer the reader only in a general manner to the JRK mentioned already in a similar context on p.18 supra. It is also with reference to Jaina literature in general that we proposed in BRUHN We: 14-19 four minor technical strategies which we repeat here in tabular form. The new wording is an abstract, with minor revisions of the description as given in BRUHN We:
1. Catalogues (bibliographies) of text editions. 2. Conspectuses (macroscopic analyses of individual works on the basis of
traditional subdivisions; microscopic analyses of the same works by way of
systematic segmentation). 3. Specialized and annotated bibliographies of one type or another. 4. Standardized sections in books and articles, informing the reader about the
original text(s) on which a study is based. Miniature bibliographies could be added in the case that modern publications on the text(s) have appeared
previously. Topics 1-2 are more specialized" than topics 3-4 in so far as they are closely connected with the study of earty Jaina literature (with topic 2 having a special bearing on the exegetical literature). Specialized bibliographies (topic 3) are not only instru ments of research, but also instruments for the engineering of research. Such bibliogra
phies can coordinate scattered material (BRUHN We, BRUHN Bi etc.), and a bibliographical "flash back" can even help to recall to life half-forgotten publications. The extent and the penetration of bibliographical studies increase if we accept miniature bibliographies, normally only found in the form of footnotes, as a bibliographical category in its own right (refer in this connection to the appendices" in BRUHN Ma and BRUHN Ah). The main responsibility is to be sure, always on the side of the author rather than on the side of the bibliographer. Short, as well as long articles are a normal form of publication, but no discipline can do without monographs and no bibliographical device can counterbalance the disadvantages of an unlimited fragmentation of research. The fourth topic in the above list likewise points to what we call "the responsibility of the author".
A few special observations shall be added to the second topic. The preparation of a conspectus is made easier when we are in a position to isolate "blocks" or when we can distinguish between the main line of the argument and interruptions" in this line. A "block" (in metrical texts a sequence of eight, ten, or more verses) belongs to the basic exposition, but, although part and parcel of the basic line, it forms a unit in its own right. The character of the "interruptions" is different. They may consist of a single verse or a single sentence but they are in principle outside the basic text. Since "blocks" and "interruptions differ from genre to genre (there are, of course, also genres where the problem does not arise at all), it is not necessary to describe them in a stringent manner. It may even be said that they point to specific forms of textual analysis rather than to specific phenomena. The following examples are taken from the exegetical literature. The Dhyanasataka in the Avasyakaniryukti is a typical "block" (LEUMANN Üb: pp.30 and 31", "Theil XIV). The historical question whether a block was a later addition or a part of the original text - if such a text ever existed - is not relevant to the present discussion. Examples of "interruptions" as found in the exegetical literature are program verses (dvdragatha.s) and verses with lists of synonyms (p.41 supra). Such verses may be older than the remaining text (LEUMANN Da: 602), but they form at any rate homogeneous sub-corpuses. For various reasons it is convenient to treat such sub-corpuses separately. It should therefore also be possible to devise a form of conspectus for the exegetical literature where the "interruptions are typographically distinguished from each other and from the rest of the text. In the case of the "blocks" it may be useful to prepare a subsidiary conspectus which mentions only the blocks" but not the intervening matter.
So far we have not mentioned the issue of synopses. Although this question arises immediately in a discussion of conspectuses, provided there are parallel versions, we cannot discuss it in the present context. The character of a synopsis may change within one and the same work, and the preparation of such an instrument of interpretation requires refined methods which are adjusted to the different cases.
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