Text Documents And Extracts Chiefly From Manuscripts in Bodleian Vol 01 Part 05

SR No.: 020820
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Max Muller, H Wenzel
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1885
Total Pages: 107
Language: English, Sanskrit
Classification: Book_English & Book_Devnagari
File Size: 8 MB

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PREFACE.
in each paragraph. Where a passage was completely unintelligible to us, we have said so in the Notes.
While reading this and other Sanskrit texts with me, Kasawara had prepared a large number of notes, consisting chiefly of references to books which he had been studying at Oxford. Dr. Wenzel has had the kindness to revise and arrange these notes, and he has himself added new references to the works of Köppen, Kern, Cunningham, Oldenberg, Wassiljew, and to Tibetan authorities. He wishes, however, to have it clearly understood that he is not responsible for the accuracy of quotations from the Mahavyutpatti, the Abhidharmakosa, and other works, chiefly Chinese, which Kasawara had made from MSS., not accessible to Dr. Wenzel.
The order of the quotations is generally the following. The Pali words are given immediately after the Sanskrit words. Then follow : (1) The Buddhist Sanskrit works and their Tibetan translations; (2) the Pali sources, i.e. Childers and whatever has appeared after him; and, finally, (3) the European authors who have discussed the subject. Of these last the principal works only have been cited, and only their more important passages. Sometimes, at the end, some other Sanskrit works have been added which may happen to mention the same subject. The translations have mostly been given after Childers, but with constant regard to later authorities.
As to the arrangement of the Dharma-samgraha itself, no certain plan is discernible in the disposition of its matter. Sometimes kindred subjects follow each other, but they are also scattered here and there through the whole work. So, for instance, we find the cosmological terms enumerated in sections 3-13, 86-91, 120-129; other groups are the Bhodhipakshika-dharmas (sects. 43-50), the four divisions of each of the four Noble Truths (sects. 97-100), the three classes of each of the ten Paramitås (sects. 105-114); the divisions of Sabda, Rasa, Gandha, Sparsa (sects. 35-38), etc.
Most of the Dharmalokamukias of the fourth chapter of the Lalitavistara are found in our collection, viz.: Sect. 15, cp. Dharmál. 83 and 84; 16, cp. I4-17; 17, cp. 87-92; I9, cp. 94; 25, cp. 48-51; 44-5O, cp. 5282 ; 54, cp. 8-13; 55, cp. 18-21; 64, cp. 108 and 109; 107, cp. 51, 105, and 106; 117, cp. 97-100.