A 54-1 Śabdārthacintāvivṛti
Manuscript culture infobox
Filmed in: A 54/1
Title: Śabdārthacintāvivṛti
Dimensions: 31 x 5.5 cm x 18 folios
Material: palm-leaf
Condition:
Scripts: Newari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Vyākaraṇa
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 1/1697
Remarks:
Reel No. A 54-1
Title Śabdārthacintāvivṛti
Author Ratnaśrījñāna (?)
Subject Vyākaraṇa
Language Sanskrit
Text Features The name of the author of this commentary is not explicitly mentioned in the preserved part of the MS. However, while explaining the term kartṛ‑ in his commentary on the Kāvyādarśa 2.228, Ratnaśrījñāna (9th–10th c.) refers to his own Śabdārthacintāvivṛti (see Thakur/Jha 1957, p. 143). Relying on this information, and because of the similarities of style, we can assume that this MS contains Ratnaśrījñāna’s commentary on the Śabdārthacintā, a hitherto unknown work by some unnamed ācārya.
Reference BSP 6, p. 76, no. 245 (1697 (1) 3); Dimitrov 2004
Manuscript Details
Script Newari
Material palm-leaf
State incomplete, only fols. 11–28 are preserved, all in very fine condition.
Size 31.0 x 5.5 cm
Binding Hole 1, rectangular, in the middle, from top to bottom
Folios 18
Lines per Folio 7
Foliation letters in the left-hand margin on the verso
Place of Deposit NAK
Accession No. 1/1697
Used for Edition no
Manuscript Features
The MS is not dated, but it may have been written in the 12th c.<ref name="ftn1">Cf. Bendall 1883, Plate II.3 and Plate III.1.</ref> It is certainly not later than the 14th c.
The letter-numerals used in the MS run as follows: to/1 (11), to/2 (12), to/3 (13), to/pka (14), to/hya (15), to/bhra (16), to/ña (17), to/u (18), to/te (19), tha (20), tha/1 (21), … tha/u (28).
Excerpts
Beginning (fol. 11r)
(1)bdārthavyavahāraḥ pravarttate lokasyeti | tatas tātviko ʼbhedaḥ kālpa〇nikas tu bheda ity abhyupagamyata eva bhedo ʼpi nanūktaṃ pāramāthikaḥ pratyakṣādipramāṇasiddho (2) stīti pramāṇasiddhaṃ hi pāramāthikam ucyate | nānyad eva kiñ cit pā〇ramāthikaṃ nāma | bhavatu vā kālpaniko ʼpi bhedaḥ sarvathā vācyavācakavyavasthā na vyāhanyate | sarva(3)dādimatasādhāraṇaṃ caitad vyākaraṇam ity asakṛd uktaṃ | sarva eva: 〇 hy anena vyavaharantīti | alam atra viśeṣamatābhiniveśeneti || ○ || (fol. 11r1–3)
End (fol. 28v)
yadi dravyapradhānaṃ syāt tadā subantāntara⟪..⟫prayoge vākyaṃ na samāpyate | tathā tiṅā(6)ntaprayoge pi syād devadattaḥ sthālyām iti | nanu subantenāpi vā〇kye samāptir dṛśyate | devadatta āgata iti | na tatrāpi kim ity apekṣāsti nāstīti vā vākya(7)samāpteḥ sarvapadārthānāṃ sadasattvāvyabhicārād aparyāyeṇa ca 〇 tayor asambhavād avaśyaṃ tatraikam apekṣaṇiyam asti nāstīti vā | ata eva tatra tatrocyate (fol. 28v5–7)
Sub-colophons
śabdārthaci〇ntāvivṛtau śabdārthanirddeśaḥ || ○ || (fol. 11v2)
Microfilm Details
Reel No. A 54/1
Date of Filming 26-10-1970
Exposures 21
Used Copy Berlin
Type of Film negative
Catalogued by DD
Date 11-02-2003
Bibliography
- Dimitrov, Dragomir (2004): Śabdālaṃkāradoṣavibhāga – Die Unterscheidung der schwierigen Lautfiguren und der Fehler. Kritische Ausgabe des dritten Kapitels von Daṇḍins Poetik Kāvyādarśa und der tibetischen Übertragung Sñan ṅag me loṅ samt dem ältesten erhaltenen Sanskrit-Kommentar des Ratnaśrījñāna, dem ältesten tibetischen Kommentar des Dpaṅ Blo gros brtan pa und einer deutschen Übersetzung des Sanskrittextes der Poetik. Marburg 2004. [unpublished PhD thesis]
- Hahn, Michael (1997): “Doctrine and Poetry: Śivasvāmin’s Essentials of Buddhism. Text and Translation of Canto xx of His Kapphiṇābhyudaya”, in: Bauddhavidyāsudhākaraḥ. Studies in Honour of Heinz Bechert on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday. Edited by Petra Kieffer-Pülz und Jens-Uwe Hartmann. Swisttal-Odendorf 1997, pp. 207–232.
- Inokuchi, Taijun (1990): Sanskrit Manuscripts of the Buddhist Sūtras from Nepal. Edited by Taijun Inokuchi. Kyoto 1990. (Facsimile Series of Rare Texts in the Library of the Ryukoku University, 9)
- Shankar, Gauri / Hahn, Michael (1989): Śivasvāmin’s Kapphiṇābhyudaya or Exaltation of King Kapphiṇa. Critically edited with an introduction by Gauri Shankar, with an appendix and revised romanized version of cantos i-viii and xix by Michael Hahn. New Delhi 1989.
- Thakur, Anantalal / Jha, Upendra (1957): Kavyalakṣaṇa (sic) of Daṇḍin (also known as Kāvyādarśa). With commentary called Ratnaśrī of Ratnaśrījñāna. Edited By Anantalal Thakur and Upendra Jha Darbhanga 1957.
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