Vinaya literature prescribes various ‘legal’ acts (Skt. karman-, Pāli kamma-) necessary for the day-to-day running of the Buddhist order. The exact formulas to be recited in order to perform various legal acts are preserved in a formulary called the Karmavācanā (Pāli Kammavācā). Among the ‘Gilgit Manuscripts’ discovered in the village of Naupur near Gilgit in 1931 and 1938,1 there are two Karmavācanā manuscripts,2 the Sanskrit text of which has already been published: the text dealt with by BANERJEE 1949 and VON HINÜBER 1969 belongs to one manuscript, and that by WILLE 1990: 148–1533 to another. This article offers a re-edition of folios 43–54 belonging to the Karmavācanā text which was first published by Anukul Chandra BANERJEE. This Karmavācanā contains the ordination formulas for Buddhist monks.4 The main reason to re-edit these folios is that whereas related Karmavācanā texts, i.e. BhīKaVā (re-ed.) and Upj (re-ed.), have been re-edited, a re-edition of the Karmavācanā has not been published.
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Introduction 57 1. Orthographical characteristics of the Karmavācanā 61 2. Phonological characteristics of the Karmavācanā 63 3. Morphological characteristics of the Karmavācanā 67 3.1. Declensions 3.2. Verbs 3.3. Compound 4. Supplements to BHSD 68 Symbols used in this re-edition 69 Abbreviations 70 Bibliography 76 Re-edited Text of One of the Gilgit Karmavācanās 82
