Bhaiksuki Manuscript of the Candralamkara

Dimitrov, Dragomir:
The Bhaikṣukī Manuscript of the Candrālaṃkāra : Study, Script Tables, and Facsimile Edition / by Dragomir Dimitrov. - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard Univ. Dept. of Sanskrit, 2010. - xiv, 196 S. : Ill. - (Harvard Oriental Series ; 72)
ISBN 978-0-674-05138-6 / 0-674-05138-6
US$ 25,00 / £ 18,95 / EUR 22,50
DDC: 491.25
-- Angekündigt für Februar 2011 [Auslieferung: August 2010] --

Beschreibung
This volume discusses the Bhaikṣukī manuscript of the Candrālaṃkāra ("Ornament of the Moon"), a commentary of the twelfth century based on the Cāndravyākaraṇa, Candragomin's seminal Buddhist grammar of Sanskrit (fifth century). The discovery of the Bhaikṣukī script and of all available written sources are described. The detailed study of this codex unicus of the Candrālaṃkāra is accompanied by a facsimile edition and extensive tables of the script, a long-felt desideratum in the field of palaeography. The Buddhist author of the commentary has been identified for the first time, and the nature of his treatise and its position in the Cāndra school of grammar have been expounded. The history of the manuscript and newly discovered traces of the Bhaikṣukī script in Tibet are discussed. This publication will serve as a prolegomenon necessary for the preparation of a critical edition of the Candrālaṃkāra, which until now was believed to have been lost irretrievably. [Verlagsinformation]

Inhalt
List of Illustrations. ix
Abbreviations. x
Acknowledgements. xi
CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION. 1
1.1 The Discovery of the Bhaikṣukī script. 3
1.2 The Sindhura Script. 6
1.3 Preliminary Analysis of the Candrālaṃkāra Manuscript. 9
1.4 Inscriptions in the Bhaikṣukī Script. 12
1.5 Manuscripts in the Bhaikṣukī Script. 15
   1.5.1 The Cambridge portion of the Candrālaṃkāra. 15
   1.5.2 The Kathmandu portion of the Candrālaṃkāra. 15
   1.5.3 The codex unicus of the Candrālaṃkāra. 17
   1.5.4 The manuscripts of the Abhidharmasamuccayakārikā and the Maṇicūḍajātaka. 19
CHAPTER TWO: THE CANDRĀLAṂKĀRA AND ITS MANUSCRIPT. 23
2.1 The Candrālaṃkāra. 25
   2.1.1 A commentary on Ratnamati’s Cāndravyākaraṇapañjikā. 25
   2.1.2 The author of the Candrālaṃkāra. 31
   2.1.3 Quotations from the Candrālaṃkāra. 38
   2.1.4 The title of Sāriputta’s commentary. 40
   2.1.5 The last stanza in the Candrālaṃkāra manuscript. 42
   2.1.6 The fate of the Candrālaṃkāra manuscript. 47
2.2 Further Traces of the Bhaikṣukī Script in Tibet. 50
2.3 Letter-Numerals in the Bhaikṣukī Script. 53
2.4 The Order of the Folios of the Candrālaṃkāra Manuscript. 61
   2.4.1 Concordance to the Cambridge microfilm copy. 64
   2.4.2 Concordance to the Stony Brook microfiche copy. 65
   2.4.3 The original order of the folios. 66
CHAPTER THREE: SCRIPT TABLES. 71
3.1 Tables of the Bhaikṣukī Script. 73
   3.1.1 Basic letters. 75
   3.1.2 Conjunct consonants. 76
   3.1.3 Diacritic vowels. 85
   3.1.4 Anusvāra, visarga, avagraha, virāma, and other symbols. 89
   3.1.5 Similar characters. 90
   3.1.6 Characters in alphabetical order. 92
3.2 Palaeographic peculiarities. 117
   3.2.1 Distinction between ṛ and ra. 117
   3.2.2 The geminate gg. 117
   3.2.3 Gemination after r. 118
   3.2.4 Confusion of ṛ and ri. 118
   3.2.5 Initial ī. 118
   3.2.6 Differentiation of b and v. 118
   3.2.7 Interchange of sibilants. 118
   3.2.8 Confusion of kṣ and kh. 118
   3.2.9 Final consonant. 119
3.3 Conclusion. 119
APPENDIX: Facsimile Edition of the Candrālaṃkāra Manuscript. 121
BIBLIOGRAPHY. 181
INDEX. 193

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DRAGOMIR DIMITROV is Assistant Professor of Indology and Tibetology at the University of Marburg. Profile page; Homepage.

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