Veröffentlichungen der Indologischen Kommission der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz
叢書號
7
資料類型
書籍=Book
使用語言
英文=English
摘要
The Buddhist Indus script (Sindhulipi or Saindhavī) refers to an Indian script with “arrow-headed” characters which the British Indologist Cecil Bendall (1856–1906) noticed for the first time in a twelfth-century manuscript, and which later scholars tentatively called “Bhaikṣukī”. With the help of some Tibetan sources it is actually possible not only to establish its original name, i.e. “Saindhavī”, but also to prove a direct connection between this script and the Saindhava monks or the Sāṃmitīyas. Despite the importance of this Buddhist school, until recently its original canonical literature was considered to have been lost. Dragomir Dimitrov presents now information about the unexpected discovery of several Indian manuscripts written in Saindhavī script and offers a new analysis of the Old Bengali codex unicus of the so-called Patna Dharmapada, which should rather be known now as the Saindhavī Dharmapada. This study proves that in fact a number of original canonical texts of the Sāṃmitīyas and some of their post-canonical works have survived. The texts are written in a Middle Indian language which it is suggested here to call “Saindhavī”. The better understanding of the close link between the Sāṃmitīyas/Saindhavas, the Saindhavī language, and the Saindhavī script permits to fill some glaring gaps in Buddhist studies and Indian linguistics.
目次
Preface vii Acknowledgements ix List of Figures & Plates xiii Abbreviations & Symbols XV Prologue 3 PART ONE The Buddhist Indus Script 9 1.1 The Epigraphic Evidence 9 1.2 The Bhaiksuki Hypothesis 19 1.3 Yi ge sna tshogs kyi phyi mo 24 1.4 Rgya dkar... gyi yi ge dan dpe ris rnam grans man ba 31 1.5 Cha tshad kyi dpe ris Dpyod Idan yid gsos 35 1.6 The Saindhavi Script 39 1.7 Some Manuscripts in Saindhavi Script 43 1.8 On the Origin of the Saindhavi Script 51 PART TWO The Sacred Scriptures of the Sammitiyas 65 2.1 The Literature of the Sammitiyas 66 2.2 The Dharmapada of the Sammitiyas 71 2.2.1 The Discovery of the «Patna Dharmapada» 71 2.2.2 The Editions of the «Patna Dharmapada»75 2.2.3 The School-Affiliation of the «Patna Dharmapada» 79 2.3 The Saindhavi Dharmapada and Its codex unicus 86 2.3.1 A Quotation from the Saindhavi Dharmapada 87 2.3.2 The Colophon of the codex unicus 89 2.3.3 The Date and Script of the codex unicus 92 2.3.4 Some Palaeographic Features 94 2.3.5 Some Peculiar Scribal Errors 103 2.3.6 Some Text-Critical Considerations 117 2.4 The Saindhavi of the Saindhavas 146 2.5 The Saindhavi Language and Its Name 155 2.6 Further Traces of the Sammitiya Canon 161 2.6.1 The Saindhavi Kevattasūtra 168 2.6.2 Other Saindhavi sutras 185 2.7 Some Later Saindhavi Texts 199 Epilogue 211 Bibliography 221 Indices 245 Colophon 255
