tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27854421811809050992024-03-14T07:51:00.492+02:00Sanskrit bits and piecesAChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05683311619087321269noreply@blogger.comBlogger99125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2785442181180905099.post-40794867283043106582018-10-18T16:21:00.001+03:002018-10-18T16:24:09.598+03:00Openlibrary and Max MüllerIt's been a long time since my last post here. A really long time :)<br />
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As it happens some things never leave ones mind. So it is for me with sanskrit.<br />
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Looking for the famous Hitopadeśa in a bilingual edition I stumbled upon<br />
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"The first book of the Hitopadeśa containing the Sanskrit text, with interlinear transliteration, grammatical analysis, and English translation edited by Max Müller"<br />
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Now seeing that there is a first book, I looked after the rest of them and I found the <a href="https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL1950A/F._Max_M%C3%BCller">Max Muller page on openlibrary</a>.<br />
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Enjoy the writings of this amazing scholar!<br />
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<br />AChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05683311619087321269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2785442181180905099.post-79576946675110498482012-07-14T12:48:00.000+03:002012-07-14T12:48:59.224+03:00sanskritebooks.orgThe excellent blog <a href="http://sanskritebooks.wordpress.com/">http://sanskritebooks.wordpress.com</a> got its own domain. Now it can be followed at: <a href="http://sanskritebooks.org/">http://sanskritebooks.org</a>AChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05683311619087321269noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2785442181180905099.post-55726165468248398412011-12-18T23:47:00.002+02:002011-12-19T11:35:04.644+02:00svabhāva and parabhāva<b><span style="font-family: Arial Unicode MS,Arial Unicode MS Standard; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial Unicode MS,Arial Unicode MS Standard; font-size: small;">na hi svabhāvo bhāvānāṃ pratyayādiṣu vidyate |<br />
avidyamāne svabhāve parabhāvo na vidyate || 3 ||</span></span></b><br />
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This is the third verse of Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā. In Jay L. Garfield translation it sais:<br />
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The essence of entities<br />
Is not present in the conditions, etc . . . .<br />
If there is no essence,<br />
There can be no otherness-essence. </blockquote>
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Here the words <i>svabhāva </i>and <i>parabhāva </i>are translated by essence respectively otherness-essence. On <a href="http://rywiki.tsadra.org/index.php/Investigation_of_Conditions">Dharma Dictionary</a> website we find the translation as follows:<br />
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3. The essence of things does not exist in conditions and so on. If an own thing does not exist, an other thing does not exist. </blockquote>
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I am very aware of the difficulty in translating these two terms, so I will have a short discussion in these. <br />
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The word <i>sva-bhāva</i> is a compound that means own-being while <i>para-bhāva</i> in this context is some sort of opposing term meaning other-being. I know the results -- own-being & other-being -- do not deserve the title of "meaning" but is a start. While the term <i>svabhāva</i> received a lot of attention during the time, we've been not so lucky with <i>parabhāva</i>. The reason might be the antonymic look of it. So if we take <i>svabhāva</i>, like Edgerton, as nature, then <i>parabhāva</i> become non-nature or other-than-nature either of which do not seem right. My approach in solving this tends to be an instrumental one. So by <i>svabhāva</i> I understand "being-by-self" while <i>parabhāva</i> becomes "being-by-other". In short, own-nature as opposed to other-nature. Then, my literary translation would be:<br />
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There is, indeed, no own-nature of entities among conditions etc;<br />
[Then] in the absence of own-nature, there is no other-nature. </blockquote>
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<br />AChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05683311619087321269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2785442181180905099.post-80060317648879168662011-09-30T16:27:00.002+03:002011-10-11T20:43:44.122+03:00When poor in knowledge<span style="font-family: Arial Unicode MS,Arial Unicode MS Standard; font-size: small;">yadā kiñcij-jño 'haṃ dvipa iva madāndhaḥ samabhavaṃ<br />
tadā sarvajño 'smīty abhavad avaliptaṃ mama manaḥ<br />
yadā kiñcit kiñcid budhajana-sakāśād avagataṃ<br />
tadā mūrkho 'smīti jvara iva mado me vyapagataḥ || BharSt_1.8 ||</span><br />
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AChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05683311619087321269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2785442181180905099.post-78648476898247552102011-09-29T11:55:00.000+03:002011-09-29T11:55:38.335+03:00learnsanskrit.org<a href="http://learnsanskrit.org/">learnsanskrit.org</a> is a new website dedicated to spreading the knowledge of Sanskrit over the internet. It has a fresh look and a great layout. The main feature is the grammar that is conceived in tutorial style with exercises at the end of each lesson.<br />
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In their own words:<br />
<blockquote><dfn>learnsanskrit.org</dfn> aims to explore how the unique qualities of the Internet can facilitate the task of learning and teaching Sanskrit. To some extent this site is iconoclastic, for although it owes much to both traditional Sanskrit grammar and classical Western philology, it does away with both whenever they make the task of learning Sanskrit needlessly complicated.</blockquote><br />
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<a href="http://sanskritebooks.wordpress.com/">http://sanskritebooks.wordpress.com/</a><br />
<a href="http://bharateeya.wordpress.com/">http://bharateeya.wordpress.com/</a><br />
<a href="http://hinduebooks.blogspot.com/">http://hinduebooks.blogspot.com/</a><br />
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On these blogs one can find tons of sanskrit e-books.AChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05683311619087321269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2785442181180905099.post-71310389558569826082011-04-07T14:43:00.001+03:002011-09-29T11:18:30.057+03:00pañcavarṇacūrṇavidhipañcavarṇacūrṇavidhi<br>
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upabhedakāraṇe [pañcavarṇavidhiḥ]<br>
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pītaṃ śuklāruṇaṃ kṛṣṇaṃ pattanārthaṃ rajaḥ smṛtam ।<br>
vāmī(so0 - vāmā) jyeṣaṭhā ca raudrī ca bhavānī ca rajo'dhipāḥ ॥1॥<br>
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sarvadoṣanivṛttyarthaṃ kṛṣṇavarṇaṃ prasādhyayet ।<br>
mūrtestasyāḥ prakāśārthaṃ śuklavarṇaṃ prasārayet ॥2॥<br>
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<b>Day 1 Bijeshwarii, Swayambhu, Patan</b><br>
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This is also the last (full) day in Nepal. The next day I was to take off to return home.<br />
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The person who made all my trips possible is my friend Rajan, a great guy, whom I have no means to thank enough.<br />
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Thanks buddy!AChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05683311619087321269noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2785442181180905099.post-5134946208325189142010-04-14T11:24:00.000+03:002010-04-14T11:24:32.145+03:00Nepal trip report - days 11 & 12I have revisited Swayambhunath and Pāṭan.AChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05683311619087321269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2785442181180905099.post-31498248797337301762010-04-06T14:10:00.001+03:002010-04-14T11:22:20.467+03:00Nepal trip report - day 10Traveled to Kirtipur & Pharping on a bus roof.<br />
Kirtipur, a Newa town on the steep slopes of two hills. Very quiet due<br />
to the lack of traffic.<br />
In Pharping I've visited temples of Dakshinakali and Vajra Yogini.AChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05683311619087321269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2785442181180905099.post-59502443998603443592010-04-06T14:05:00.001+03:002010-04-06T14:05:22.038+03:00Nepal trip report - day 9Revisited Patan. I've spent the whole day there and visited the museum.<br>I wasn't able te see Sundari Chowk, unfortunately.<br>Repairings. :-)AChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05683311619087321269noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2785442181180905099.post-75089881828789892502010-04-06T14:03:00.001+03:002010-04-06T14:03:08.450+03:00Nepal trip report - days 7 & 8Two days of back breaking motorcycle riding in the eastern hills. For<br>me riding without helmet or other kind of protection was quite a<br>terrible adventure.<p>I spent the night in a traditional Nepalese house in a village very<br>close to Jiri. This period of the year, unfortunately, the air is<br>quite milky and I wasn't able to see Himalayas.AChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05683311619087321269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2785442181180905099.post-46434341500958917922010-04-02T06:55:00.001+03:002010-04-02T06:55:57.530+03:00Nepal trip report - day 6Today I was not feeling in very good shape so I've only got to<br>Mhai-Pi. Here it was taking place an Upanayanam ceremony. Lots of<br>people celebrating there.<p>PS. for the next three days I'll go with Rajan and two NGMCP<br>colleagues with motorbikes in the country side somewhere in the east.<br>I'll report on return.AChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05683311619087321269noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2785442181180905099.post-58868096836798547932010-04-02T06:48:00.001+03:002010-04-02T06:48:21.359+03:00Nepal trip report - day 5Even though I said I'll not return in Darwar Square again, here I am<br>once more crawling on my elbows so that I'll not be spotted by the<br>annoying guide.<br>This time I've visited the Hanuman Dokha and I have the impression<br>that Tribhuvan king was not very happy comparing with Mahendra and<br>Birendra kings.<br>After this short visit in DS I've gone to Kaiser Library. Here I found<br>a small display where few manuscripts were shown.AChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05683311619087321269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2785442181180905099.post-48735130668937285992010-03-31T06:41:00.001+03:002010-03-31T06:41:50.414+03:00Nepal trip report - day 4This was the most anoying day so far. I had in plan to spend it in<br>Kathmandu Darwar Square. I got there from Tahiti following a walking<br>path in Lonely Planet guide. Once there, I got chased by one extremely<br>persistent and anoying guide who wanted to give me the square tour for<br>Rs1500. I told him to go and find a group, because I can not aford<br>this price. The only way to get rid of him was by leaving the place.<br>I don't think I'll return there. It was extremely anoying.AChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05683311619087321269noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2785442181180905099.post-10094247908995997942010-03-31T06:31:00.001+03:002010-03-31T06:31:21.477+03:00Nepal trip report - day 3The third day was spent at NGMCP where we read manuscipts with<br>traditional panditas. Then I got a feel of how various meter Kaavya is<br>chanted.<br>I also had lunch there and signed the guestbook.<br>Anyway, a very warm welcome there and the invitation to return.AChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05683311619087321269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2785442181180905099.post-82738607507321167672010-03-31T06:20:00.001+03:002010-03-31T06:20:54.236+03:00Nepal trip report - day 2Due to long power cuts, I wasn't able to pot in time. Sorry for that!<br>In the second day, I've bee riding the motorbike with Rajan all the<br>way up to Bouddhanat where we visited the stupa and temples. Those of<br>you who been here know what an adventure this is.<br>From here, again on motorbike, among hundreds of people, cars, buses,<br>ricshas and cows we've got to Pashupatinath. Unfortunately, here I am<br>not allowed to enter in temples, so we just walked up an down the hill<br>and looked at funeral pyres.AChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05683311619087321269noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2785442181180905099.post-7142225432300901232010-03-28T09:52:00.000+03:002010-04-18T10:53:07.884+03:00Nepal trip report - day 1Hello guys, as you probably realize, after the first day in Nepal I am<br />
completely confused. The traffic is completely chaotic and the entire<br />
Thamel is full of people wanting to guide you. One of them refused to<br />
accept money from me, instead wanting me to buy him food for the<br />
familly. ;-) The bill was Rs1700 . Anyway, lem me list the places I've<br />
visited thanks to my friend Rajan.<br />
1. Swayambhunath hill, stupa, monastery and temples;<br />
2. Patan Darwar square, here I had lunch at Café Du Temple and my<br />
camera remained without batery;<br />
3. Patan Golden temple;<br />
4. Very close to the Golden temple, Manjushree temple;<br />
5. Patan Bagalamukhi temple;<br />
6. At the same spot, the officiant invited inside to see the Unmatta<br />
Bhairava idol.<br />
For the next day, we plan to go to Pashupatinath an Boudhanath.AChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05683311619087321269noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2785442181180905099.post-88135069879645337222010-03-22T01:33:00.001+02:002010-03-22T01:34:40.796+02:00Nepal tripHello friends, starting next weekend I'll be in Nepal, Kathmandu and the valley for about two weeks. If anyone else around there, I really would like to meet you.<br />
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:-)AChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05683311619087321269noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2785442181180905099.post-69630363459048882010-01-31T23:55:00.000+02:002010-02-06T10:01:06.611+02:00Kula tree (kulavṛkṣa)KulacūḍāmaṇiTantra:<br>
<blockquote>1.33 I will speack of the purification of knowledge acording to the <i>kula</i> practice. Having got up early and bowed to the <i>kula</i> tree (<i>kulavṛkṣa</i>), the <i>sādhaka</i> ....</blockquote>What the <i>kulavṛkṣa</i> means? <br>
<a href="https://sanskrit-bits.blogspot.com/2010/01/kula-tree-kulavrksa.html#more">Read more ››››››</a>AChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05683311619087321269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2785442181180905099.post-56935467306931332052010-01-09T12:36:00.000+02:002010-01-09T13:03:15.024+02:00The oldest Sanskrit grammar writen by an europeanI just learned about it from "<a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/Sanskrit-Grammar-Manuscripts-Heinrich-1610-1668/dp/9004086080/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1263033707&sr=8-1">The Sanskrit Grammar and Manuscripts of Father Heinrich Roth S.J. 1620-1668: Facsimile Edition of Biblioteca Nazionale Rome Mss or 171 and 172</a>". This grammar was never printed, the first page of <span class="fullpost">the manuscript can be seen bellow.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pNKKBbdqMy0/S0he1X-1A0I/AAAAAAAAB3w/Ps7bg4S18Sg/s1600-h/p0018.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 422px; height: 589px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pNKKBbdqMy0/S0he1X-1A0I/AAAAAAAAB3w/Ps7bg4S18Sg/s400/p0018.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5424690022231376706" border="0" /></a>The above mentioned book also contains two manuscripts, one of Sadānada's <span style="font-style: italic;">Vedāntasāra</span> and one of Veṇīdatta's <span style="font-style: italic;">Pañcatattvaprakāśa</span> along with Father Roth's commentary.</span>AChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05683311619087321269noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2785442181180905099.post-36032830539435514782010-01-03T00:12:00.000+02:002010-01-09T12:57:00.876+02:00Sanskrit manuscripts online<ul><li><a target="_blank" href="http://utlsktms.ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/list_kh.jsp">Tokyo University library</a>. It hosts almost the entire scanned collection from Matsunami's catalog. As far I remember one exemplar of Bodhicaryāvatāra is missing.</li><li><a target="_blank" href="http://oldsite.library.upenn.edu/etext/sasia/skt-mss/">Sanskrit Manuscripts at the University of Pennsylvania Library</a>;</li><li><a target="_blank" href="http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/%7Edb/ausgaben/uni_ausgabe.html?recherche=ja&ordnung=sig&projekt=1237542962&l=en">Digitale Bibliothek - Münchener Digitalisierungszentrum</a> (for more details see <a target="_blank" href="http://www.danielstender.com/granthinam/?p=360">Daniel Stender's post on the subject</a>)</li><li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.mldc.cn/sanskritweb/ms.htm">Research Institute of Sanskrit Manuscripts & Buddhist Literature, Peking University</a>. Here you can find: Śatasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā, Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā, Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā and Saddharmapuṇḍarikasūtra</li><br /></ul>AChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05683311619087321269noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2785442181180905099.post-8309457840803811032009-12-07T14:00:00.000+02:002009-12-07T16:57:28.332+02:00prasannapadā (madhyamakavṛtti)Bellow you can find two cleaned up pages from the <a href="http://utlsktms.ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/imageDetail.do?key=788&reqCode=sendPage&menu=kh&pagingPage=1&packedparam=L3N5YWhvblNlYXJjaC5kbz9yZXFDb2RlPXN5YWhvbnNlYXJjaCZzc193ZWI9cHJhc2Em">manuscript no 251</a> in Tokyo of Candrakīrti's Prasannapadā. In red is Nāgārjuna's text, in blue is the vṛtti.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pNKKBbdqMy0/Sx0XgX3SsjI/AAAAAAAAB3E/e018wydrRA8/s1600-h/p0049.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 336px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pNKKBbdqMy0/Sx0XgX3SsjI/AAAAAAAAB3E/e018wydrRA8/s320/p0049.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5412508172098384434" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pNKKBbdqMy0/Sx0XmxE7pMI/AAAAAAAAB3M/xwZDEHwWAos/s1600-h/p0050.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 337px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pNKKBbdqMy0/Sx0XmxE7pMI/AAAAAAAAB3M/xwZDEHwWAos/s320/p0050.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5412508281945695426" border="0" /></a>AChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05683311619087321269noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2785442181180905099.post-46298984300766292242009-11-21T12:01:00.000+02:002009-11-23T16:37:20.582+02:00Nepal and KathmanduIn the next year's spring I'll have a two weeks trip to Nepal. In the mean time I have to gather and assimilate all the information I can find about these places.<br /><br />Please leave your ideas regarding the "must do in Nepal" here.<br /><br /><br /><object height="295" width="480"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/VIKreZlnkSA&hl=en_GB&fs=1&rel=0"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/VIKreZlnkSA&hl=en_GB&fs=1&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="295" width="480"></embed></object><br /><br /><object height="385" width="480"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/YCjYVYT7pBI&hl=en_GB&fs=1&rel=0"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/YCjYVYT7pBI&hl=en_GB&fs=1&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="385" width="480"></embed></object><br /><br /><a href="http://southasiarev.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/nepal2mb.jpg">High resolution Nepal map</a>AChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05683311619087321269noreply@blogger.com0