Some Observations On Manuscript Transmission Of Nyayabhasya

Author(s): Yasutaka Muroya
Publisher: Yasutaka Muroya

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Some Observations on the Manuscript Transmission
of the Nyāyabhāsya*
Yasutaka MUROYA
1. Introduction
Since the editio princeps of the NBh was published by Jayanārāyana Tarkapancānana in the Bibliotheca Indica Series (No. 50) in Calcutta during the years of 1864-1865, more than twenty-five editions of this text have been published, apart from some not yet identified editions. In spite of this large number of editions, many of them are of doubtful value because
* This is a revised and enlarged version of my paper read at the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of the History of Indian Thought, Kyoto, on December 10, 2005. On this occasion, I would like to express my cordial gratitude to those colleagues who kindly made remarks on my paper at and after the conference, especially, em. Prof. Noritoshi Aramaki. Prof. Toru Funayama, Dr. Kengo Harimoto, em. Prof. Masaaki Hattori, em. Prof. Yasuke Ikari, Prof. Kei Kataoka, Prof. Werner Knobl, Prof. Esho Mikogami, Prof. Hojun Nagasaki, Prof. Masanobu Nozawa, Dr. Yasuhiro Okazaki, Prof.
uko Yokochi, and Prof. Kiyotaka Yoshimizu, and furthermore to Prof. Akihiko Akamatsu who kindly took the trouble to arrange the subsidiary support for my stay in Kyoto and gave me the chance to talk about the issue treated in this paper at a session of the VAADA research group (part of the COE Program, Faculty of Letters, Kyoto University) on December 11, 2005. I would also like to acknowledge my indebtedness with sincere gratitude to the following institutions and individuals for their assistance in gaining access to the manuscripts explicitly used in this paper and for permission to obtain copies of them: Asiatic Society (Kolkata), Banaras Hindu University (Varanasi), Government Oriental Manuscripts Library (Chennai), L. D. Institute (Ahmedabad), Oriental Research Institute (Mysore), Oriental Research Institute & Manuscripts Library (Trivandrum). Research Library for South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies (Vienna), Srihemacandracarya Jaina Jñāna Mandir (Patan), H.H. Muni Shree Jambuvijayaji, Dr. Sung Yong Kang, Dr. Hisayasu Kobayashi, em. Prof. Asko Parpola, Prof. Karin Preisendanz, Mr. P. L. Shaji, Prof. Ernst Steinkellner and Dr. Dominik Wujastyk. I am also very grateful to the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science for granting a scholarship for overseas postdoctoral research which enabled my research in South India in November and December 2002, and to the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) for funding the project "Metaphysics and Epistemology of the Nyaya Tradition" (FWF Project 17244 G-03) directed by Prof. Preisendanz. My cordial thanks are due to Dr. Sung Yong Kang, who has considerably contributed to my textual study of the NBh as a project collaborator and discussed various issues with me. I am also grateful to Dr. Anne MacDonald for reading this paper. I am deeply indebted to Prof. Preisendanz for taking the trouble to read through this paper and conveying a number of critical comments, thought-provoking discussions, and valuable suggestions. However, responsibility for the text remains entirely with me.
For unidentified editions, cf., for example, the "krpäräma Ed." mentioned in Sowani 1920: 88, fn. 12.