Jain commentaries in Sanskrit are vital for an understanding of the old Jain religious texts in P... more Jain commentaries in Sanskrit are vital for an understanding of the old Jain religious texts in Prakrit, the commentaries date from the 8 th to 13 th century. The major commentators are well-known in name but as yet there has not been any sustained research on their works. This article attempts to provide an initial reference point by listing (for the first time) all known published editions of Jain commentaries in Sanskrit on the Śvetāmbara canon by Śīlaṅka (9 th century), Abhayadeva (10 th century) and Malayagiri (10 th-11 th century).
The Kuthodaw Pagoda in Mandalay in upper Myanmar is commonly referred to as the “World’s Biggest ... more The Kuthodaw Pagoda in Mandalay in upper Myanmar is commonly referred to as the “World’s Biggest Book” (Ludu Daw Ahmar 1980: 5). Consisting of 729 marble stelae spread over a 5.2 hectare site the Pagoda is a large, coherent and historically unique inscriptional complex that preserves an authorised mid-nineteenth century Myanmar recension of the Pali canon, the primary scriptures of Theravāda Buddhism. Mandalay was founded in pre-colonial upper Myanmar (formerly Burma) in 1857 and the Kuthodaw complex is one of the city’s earliest structures. At the centre of this complex is the monument popularly known as the Kuthodaw Pagoda, the “Pagoda of Royal Merit” [Fig. 1]. The 729 stelae are arranged in seven concentric squares around the pagoda. Each of these stelae varies in size̶a typical one being 1.3 metres high, a metre wide, with around 75 lines
This article presents details on the background (and subsequent influence) of the Kuthodaw Pagoda... more This article presents details on the background (and subsequent influence) of the Kuthodaw Pagoda inscriptions (Mandalay, Myanmar), supplementing and extending an earlier paper by Allon et al. (2016). In particular, this article puts forward new material on the Tipiṭaka editing projects undertaken during the reign of King Mindon (reigned 1853-1878) and the so-called Sixth Council (1954-1956). By examining what is known about the processes that occurred for these apparently unified recensions and the subsequent publishing initiatives linked to each, the article attempts to clarify and underline the importance of the Pāli text of the Kuthodaw Pagoda stelae and its significance for contemporary editors, readers, and translators of Theravāda canonical texts. Also included are indicatory results of new textual studies comparing four canonical extracts using nineteenth century manuscripts from Mandalay, the Kuthodaw stelae inscribed version, and printed versions linked to the Fifth and Sixth Councils, as well as those of the Pali Text Society (PTS).
Comprehensive listing [to 1999] of published editions of the works of this very early Jaina autho... more Comprehensive listing [to 1999] of published editions of the works of this very early Jaina author:
1 Tattvārthasūtra (TattvāSū.)
2 Praśamaratiprakaraṇa (PraRaPra.)
3 Śrāvakācāra
4 Jambūdvīpasamāsa
5 Pūjāprakaraṇa = Pūjāvidhiprakaraṇa
The Kuthodaw Pagoda in Mandalay in upper Myanmar is commonly referred to as the “World’s Biggest ... more The Kuthodaw Pagoda in Mandalay in upper Myanmar is commonly referred to as the “World’s Biggest Book". Consisting of 729 marble stelae spread over a 5.2 hectare site, the Pagoda is a large, coherent and historically unique inscriptional complex that preserves an authorised mid-nineteenth century Myanmar recension of the Pali canon, the primary scriptures of Theravāda Buddhism. This is the story of a recent project to preserve and record the stones.
Jain commentaries in Sanskrit are vital for an understanding of the old Jain religious texts in P... more Jain commentaries in Sanskrit are vital for an understanding of the old Jain religious texts in Prakrit, the commentaries date from the 8 th to 13 th century. The major commentators are well-known in name but as yet there has not been any sustained research on their works. This article attempts to provide an initial reference point by listing (for the first time) all known published editions of Jain commentaries in Sanskrit on the Śvetāmbara canon by Śīlaṅka (9 th century), Abhayadeva (10 th century) and Malayagiri (10 th -11 th century).
The oldest manuscripts of Śvetāmbara canonical texts are palm-leaf ones from the eleventh to twel... more The oldest manuscripts of Śvetāmbara canonical texts are palm-leaf ones from the eleventh to twelfth centuries CE . As shown by Hoernle (Uvasagadasao 1880–90), Alsdorf (1965: 42), Bollée (1977–1988) and by my own doctoral work on the Nirayavaliya (Wiles 2000) there is, in all likelihood, only one recension of most, if not all, Śvetāmbara canonical texts.1 A definitive interpretation of the material available on the history of the Śvetāmbara ‘canon’2 has not yet been written, however, current views on this are summarized in the standard scholarly accounts of Jainism (Dundas 1992: 53–70, Jaini 1979: 42–88, Schubring 1935 §37–56). Since the first descriptions of the canon by Jacobi (1879) and Weber (1883–1885), the most original contribution to the description of this history has been the work of Kapadia (1941) who provided citations of evidence from the primary source materials. Here I wish to query a consistent feature of scholarly presentations about the redacting councils to which the Śvetāmbara canon is attributed, namely a recurring weakness to adequately identify and examine the sources upon which these scholarly presentations are based, especially the bases for the dating of the councils. I want to show that current scholarly accounts do not adequately represent the sources.
This edition of Uvaṅgas 8-12 of the religious books of the
Śvetāmbara Jains, with introduction a... more This edition of Uvaṅgas 8-12 of the religious books of the
Śvetāmbara Jains, with introduction and notes by Jozef Deleu
(1925-1994), was published in Dutch in 1969.1 We
translated it into English and reproduced Deleu’s edition of
the Ārdha-Māgadhī text, hoping to make this contribution to
Jain studies available to a wider audience.
A number of changes were made to improve the readability
of the text. Deleu used many abbreviations in his introduction
and in the edition of the text, these have for the
most part been given here in full and a list of those abbreviations retained has been added. Similarly Deleu’s style is
sometimes rather brief and in a few places an explanatory
word or two has been inserted for the sake of clarity, all such
translators’ additions are within square brackets accompanied
by an asterisk, [*]. A few footnotes have also been
added, these are also clearly identified. Other minor changes
and corrections, with the exception of obvious misprints,
have been given in the list of alterations. The variants
printed at the end of Deleu’s original text have been given
here beneath the relevant paragraphs, a few additions have
been made to the variants.
From August to December 1998 a project to replicate palm-leaf and paper manuscripts (MSS) held in... more From August to December 1998 a project to replicate palm-leaf and paper manuscripts (MSS) held in the Jain collections of Jaisalmer (Rajasthan) took place under the patronage of the senior Svetambara Mūrtipūjak monk Muni Jambūvijaya. From early October until almost the end of December I was fortunate enough to be resident in Jaisalmer to pursue my own research on the Nirayavaliyā-suyakkhandha and witnessed much of the project's work. Because of the importance of this manuscript collection and the longstanding difficulties impeding its scholarly use I have prepared the following notes and observations on the project and the collection.
... 93). v. 1 Pari sis.t.a 2 (pp. 381442) gives Ku salal abha's text in 662 verses with... more ... 93). v. 1 Pari sis.t.a 2 (pp. 381442) gives Ku salal abha's text in 662 verses with occasional variant readings. I do not know if v. 2 ever appeared. ... Leipzig, 1944, p. 68). Page 5. 308 REVIEWS 8 Upadhye (using information from an essay in Hind ı by Pandit Premi in Jaina hitais. ...
Jain commentaries in Sanskrit are vital for an understanding of the old Jain religious texts in P... more Jain commentaries in Sanskrit are vital for an understanding of the old Jain religious texts in Prakrit, the commentaries date from the 8 th to 13 th century. The major commentators are well-known in name but as yet there has not been any sustained research on their works. This article attempts to provide an initial reference point by listing (for the first time) all known published editions of Jain commentaries in Sanskrit on the Śvetāmbara canon by Śīlaṅka (9 th century), Abhayadeva (10 th century) and Malayagiri (10 th-11 th century).
The Kuthodaw Pagoda in Mandalay in upper Myanmar is commonly referred to as the “World’s Biggest ... more The Kuthodaw Pagoda in Mandalay in upper Myanmar is commonly referred to as the “World’s Biggest Book” (Ludu Daw Ahmar 1980: 5). Consisting of 729 marble stelae spread over a 5.2 hectare site the Pagoda is a large, coherent and historically unique inscriptional complex that preserves an authorised mid-nineteenth century Myanmar recension of the Pali canon, the primary scriptures of Theravāda Buddhism. Mandalay was founded in pre-colonial upper Myanmar (formerly Burma) in 1857 and the Kuthodaw complex is one of the city’s earliest structures. At the centre of this complex is the monument popularly known as the Kuthodaw Pagoda, the “Pagoda of Royal Merit” [Fig. 1]. The 729 stelae are arranged in seven concentric squares around the pagoda. Each of these stelae varies in size̶a typical one being 1.3 metres high, a metre wide, with around 75 lines
This article presents details on the background (and subsequent influence) of the Kuthodaw Pagoda... more This article presents details on the background (and subsequent influence) of the Kuthodaw Pagoda inscriptions (Mandalay, Myanmar), supplementing and extending an earlier paper by Allon et al. (2016). In particular, this article puts forward new material on the Tipiṭaka editing projects undertaken during the reign of King Mindon (reigned 1853-1878) and the so-called Sixth Council (1954-1956). By examining what is known about the processes that occurred for these apparently unified recensions and the subsequent publishing initiatives linked to each, the article attempts to clarify and underline the importance of the Pāli text of the Kuthodaw Pagoda stelae and its significance for contemporary editors, readers, and translators of Theravāda canonical texts. Also included are indicatory results of new textual studies comparing four canonical extracts using nineteenth century manuscripts from Mandalay, the Kuthodaw stelae inscribed version, and printed versions linked to the Fifth and Sixth Councils, as well as those of the Pali Text Society (PTS).
Comprehensive listing [to 1999] of published editions of the works of this very early Jaina autho... more Comprehensive listing [to 1999] of published editions of the works of this very early Jaina author:
1 Tattvārthasūtra (TattvāSū.)
2 Praśamaratiprakaraṇa (PraRaPra.)
3 Śrāvakācāra
4 Jambūdvīpasamāsa
5 Pūjāprakaraṇa = Pūjāvidhiprakaraṇa
The Kuthodaw Pagoda in Mandalay in upper Myanmar is commonly referred to as the “World’s Biggest ... more The Kuthodaw Pagoda in Mandalay in upper Myanmar is commonly referred to as the “World’s Biggest Book". Consisting of 729 marble stelae spread over a 5.2 hectare site, the Pagoda is a large, coherent and historically unique inscriptional complex that preserves an authorised mid-nineteenth century Myanmar recension of the Pali canon, the primary scriptures of Theravāda Buddhism. This is the story of a recent project to preserve and record the stones.
Jain commentaries in Sanskrit are vital for an understanding of the old Jain religious texts in P... more Jain commentaries in Sanskrit are vital for an understanding of the old Jain religious texts in Prakrit, the commentaries date from the 8 th to 13 th century. The major commentators are well-known in name but as yet there has not been any sustained research on their works. This article attempts to provide an initial reference point by listing (for the first time) all known published editions of Jain commentaries in Sanskrit on the Śvetāmbara canon by Śīlaṅka (9 th century), Abhayadeva (10 th century) and Malayagiri (10 th -11 th century).
The oldest manuscripts of Śvetāmbara canonical texts are palm-leaf ones from the eleventh to twel... more The oldest manuscripts of Śvetāmbara canonical texts are palm-leaf ones from the eleventh to twelfth centuries CE . As shown by Hoernle (Uvasagadasao 1880–90), Alsdorf (1965: 42), Bollée (1977–1988) and by my own doctoral work on the Nirayavaliya (Wiles 2000) there is, in all likelihood, only one recension of most, if not all, Śvetāmbara canonical texts.1 A definitive interpretation of the material available on the history of the Śvetāmbara ‘canon’2 has not yet been written, however, current views on this are summarized in the standard scholarly accounts of Jainism (Dundas 1992: 53–70, Jaini 1979: 42–88, Schubring 1935 §37–56). Since the first descriptions of the canon by Jacobi (1879) and Weber (1883–1885), the most original contribution to the description of this history has been the work of Kapadia (1941) who provided citations of evidence from the primary source materials. Here I wish to query a consistent feature of scholarly presentations about the redacting councils to which the Śvetāmbara canon is attributed, namely a recurring weakness to adequately identify and examine the sources upon which these scholarly presentations are based, especially the bases for the dating of the councils. I want to show that current scholarly accounts do not adequately represent the sources.
This edition of Uvaṅgas 8-12 of the religious books of the
Śvetāmbara Jains, with introduction a... more This edition of Uvaṅgas 8-12 of the religious books of the
Śvetāmbara Jains, with introduction and notes by Jozef Deleu
(1925-1994), was published in Dutch in 1969.1 We
translated it into English and reproduced Deleu’s edition of
the Ārdha-Māgadhī text, hoping to make this contribution to
Jain studies available to a wider audience.
A number of changes were made to improve the readability
of the text. Deleu used many abbreviations in his introduction
and in the edition of the text, these have for the
most part been given here in full and a list of those abbreviations retained has been added. Similarly Deleu’s style is
sometimes rather brief and in a few places an explanatory
word or two has been inserted for the sake of clarity, all such
translators’ additions are within square brackets accompanied
by an asterisk, [*]. A few footnotes have also been
added, these are also clearly identified. Other minor changes
and corrections, with the exception of obvious misprints,
have been given in the list of alterations. The variants
printed at the end of Deleu’s original text have been given
here beneath the relevant paragraphs, a few additions have
been made to the variants.
From August to December 1998 a project to replicate palm-leaf and paper manuscripts (MSS) held in... more From August to December 1998 a project to replicate palm-leaf and paper manuscripts (MSS) held in the Jain collections of Jaisalmer (Rajasthan) took place under the patronage of the senior Svetambara Mūrtipūjak monk Muni Jambūvijaya. From early October until almost the end of December I was fortunate enough to be resident in Jaisalmer to pursue my own research on the Nirayavaliyā-suyakkhandha and witnessed much of the project's work. Because of the importance of this manuscript collection and the longstanding difficulties impeding its scholarly use I have prepared the following notes and observations on the project and the collection.
... 93). v. 1 Pari sis.t.a 2 (pp. 381442) gives Ku salal abha's text in 662 verses with... more ... 93). v. 1 Pari sis.t.a 2 (pp. 381442) gives Ku salal abha's text in 662 verses with occasional variant readings. I do not know if v. 2 ever appeared. ... Leipzig, 1944, p. 68). Page 5. 308 REVIEWS 8 Upadhye (using information from an essay in Hind ı by Pandit Premi in Jaina hitais. ...
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1 Tattvārthasūtra (TattvāSū.)
2 Praśamaratiprakaraṇa (PraRaPra.)
3 Śrāvakācāra
4 Jambūdvīpasamāsa
5 Pūjāprakaraṇa = Pūjāvidhiprakaraṇa
canon, the primary scriptures of Theravāda Buddhism. This is the story of a recent project to preserve and record the stones.
Śvetāmbara Jains, with introduction and notes by Jozef Deleu
(1925-1994), was published in Dutch in 1969.1 We
translated it into English and reproduced Deleu’s edition of
the Ārdha-Māgadhī text, hoping to make this contribution to
Jain studies available to a wider audience.
A number of changes were made to improve the readability
of the text. Deleu used many abbreviations in his introduction
and in the edition of the text, these have for the
most part been given here in full and a list of those abbreviations retained has been added. Similarly Deleu’s style is
sometimes rather brief and in a few places an explanatory
word or two has been inserted for the sake of clarity, all such
translators’ additions are within square brackets accompanied
by an asterisk, [*]. A few footnotes have also been
added, these are also clearly identified. Other minor changes
and corrections, with the exception of obvious misprints,
have been given in the list of alterations. The variants
printed at the end of Deleu’s original text have been given
here beneath the relevant paragraphs, a few additions have
been made to the variants.
Bulletin d’études indiennes (Paris) 16:161–77.
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1 Tattvārthasūtra (TattvāSū.)
2 Praśamaratiprakaraṇa (PraRaPra.)
3 Śrāvakācāra
4 Jambūdvīpasamāsa
5 Pūjāprakaraṇa = Pūjāvidhiprakaraṇa
canon, the primary scriptures of Theravāda Buddhism. This is the story of a recent project to preserve and record the stones.
Śvetāmbara Jains, with introduction and notes by Jozef Deleu
(1925-1994), was published in Dutch in 1969.1 We
translated it into English and reproduced Deleu’s edition of
the Ārdha-Māgadhī text, hoping to make this contribution to
Jain studies available to a wider audience.
A number of changes were made to improve the readability
of the text. Deleu used many abbreviations in his introduction
and in the edition of the text, these have for the
most part been given here in full and a list of those abbreviations retained has been added. Similarly Deleu’s style is
sometimes rather brief and in a few places an explanatory
word or two has been inserted for the sake of clarity, all such
translators’ additions are within square brackets accompanied
by an asterisk, [*]. A few footnotes have also been
added, these are also clearly identified. Other minor changes
and corrections, with the exception of obvious misprints,
have been given in the list of alterations. The variants
printed at the end of Deleu’s original text have been given
here beneath the relevant paragraphs, a few additions have
been made to the variants.
Bulletin d’études indiennes (Paris) 16:161–77.