De Chiara: The Khotanese Sudhanāvadāna ... 2

De Chiara, Matteo:
The Khotanese Sudhanāvadāna / Matteo de Chiara. - [Vol. 2:] Commentary. - Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz, 2014. - 228 S. - (Beiträge zur Indologie ; 48)
ISBN 978-3-447-10035-9
EUR 52,00
DDC: 294.38

Beschreibung
The Sudhanāvadāna is a 10th-century poem written in Khotanese, a Middle Iranian Language spoken in Central Asia and used to compile Buddhist works. The agreeable tale relates a previous life of Buddha: that of prince Sudhana and his wife, the fairy princess Manohara. At the core of the work is Sudhana’s journey in search of his lost consort. The poem is preserved in three virtually complete manuscripts and seven fragments all found in Dunhuang. The manuscripts and fragments must originate in a single source, but what remains are two distinct recensions: indeed, it may be assumed that, in order to conform to the needs of different audiences, the story was modified in the course of time to obtain two recensions that still run in parallel but are independent from each other, either one being complete in itself.
   This volume marks the completion of the author’s study of Sudhanāvadāna. It contains the philological commentary on the text and an etymological glossary. The commentary explains the choices made in the critical edition and draws attention to problematic passages. The etymological glossary offers three levels of information: an etymological explanation, the parallels to other Khotanese sources, and etymological propositions on the item in question. Two appendixes contain a list of all loanwords in Sudhanāvadāna, and a list of all hapaxes. [Verlagsinformation]

Inhalt
Acknowledgement. VII
Introduction. 1
Addenda and corrigenda of Vol. 1. 5
Abbreviations. 7
Texts. 7
References. 8
Commentary. 19
Etymological glossary. 163
Appendix 1: Indian loanwords. 223
Appendix 2: Hapaxes. 227

Autor
MATTEO DE CHIARA, Maître de Conférences, Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (Inalco), Paris. Mondes iranien et indien.

Quellen: Harrassowitz; Deutsche Nationalbibliothek; Bookbutler; WorldCat; Buchhandel.de
Bildquelle: Harrassowitz
Bibliographie: [1]

Rückschau
Vol. 1 siehe --> [15.05.2013] De Chiara: The Khotanese Sudhanavadana

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