Dear David, you did a great job. It is absolutely necessary to bring out a good edition. The next step is the recitation of Stotras. While it is less important for academics, there are several people who love to recite the Stotras. I have however observed many faults in the recitation.
On Sat, 9 Mar 2024, 23:14 David and Nancy Reigle via INDOLOGY, < [email protected]> wrote: > An error in my "more reliable" digital edition was discovered by me last > night. Apologies to all who already downloaded it. The corrected version > was uploaded to Academia.edu last night, after I found the error. It is in > verse 11, pāda b: the incorrect "patala" instead of the correct "paṭala". > Sorry! > > Best regards, > > David Reigle > Colorado, U.S.A. > > On Thu, Mar 7, 2024 at 5:09 PM David and Nancy Reigle <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> The worst two editions by far are the ones that have been input and have >> thus become widely available digitally. This is unfortunate, especially so >> since these may unknowingly be regarded as "the" Sanskrit of this text. So >> I have prepared a more reliable digital edition. In the absence of any >> palm-leaf manuscript, I have had to simply make use of a few more exemplars >> of the Tibetan transliteration of the Sanskrit text found in the >> *Sarva-tathāgata-mātṛ-tārā-viśva-karma-bhava-tantra* than were available >> to Martin Willson by 1986. >> >> The first digital edition, from 2004, available from the Digital Sanskrit >> Buddhist Canon site in devanāgarī ( >> https://www.dsbcproject.org/canon-text/content/631/2758) and in roman ( >> https://www.dsbcproject.org/canon-text/content/113/806), was input from >> Janardan Shastri Pandey's edition in his 1994 *Bauddhastotrasamgraha*. >> Pandey is an excellent Sanskrit pandit, and he emended what he could (in >> parentheses), but the manuscript he drew from was obviously very corrupt. >> In his *Āryatārāsragdharāstotram & Tārānamaskāraikaviṃśatistotram* >> published the following year, 1995, he provided a greatly improved edition. >> As comparison of his readings show, he had access to Wayman's 1959 edition >> that was reprinted in his 1984 book, *Buddhist Insight*, in the interim. >> >> The second digital edition, from 2020, available from GRETIL ( >> https://gretil.sub.uni-goettingen.de/gretil/corpustei/transformations/html/sa_namaskAraikaviMzatistotra.htm), >> was input from Godefroy de Blonay's 1895 edition, which was based on two >> late paper manuscripts. The understandable inadequacy of this pioneering >> edition has long been known, yet it is not as bad as the first digital >> edition, described above. >> >> On the basis of the very old Tibetan transliteration of the Sanskrit text >> found in the *Sarva-tathāgata-mātṛ-tārā-viśva-karma-bhava-tantra*, in >> comparison with de Blonay's edition and the TIbetan translation (Toh. 438), >> Alex Wayman was able to produce a good edition in 1959 (*Journal of the >> Bihar Research Society*, vol. XLV, pp. 36-43). He used only the sDe dge >> recension for the Tibetan transcription. Martin Willson used several more >> recensions, and produced a very good edition in his 1986 book, *In >> Praise of Tārā*. I found only one reading that I regard as an error in >> his edition: abhivartinam rather than correct abhivartinām in verse 26d. >> Based on additional sources, I chose equally correct alternative readings >> in several places. >> >> This stotra was brought to my attention by a friend who has long worked >> with the Tibetan sources. After then seeing how faulty the widely used >> Sanskrit edition from the Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon is, I undertook >> this digital edition. I would be happy to have it uploaded to Archive.org. >> In the meantime, it can be found here: >> https://www.academia.edu/115937238/Tara_namaskaraikavimsati_stotram >> >> Best regards, >> >> David Reigle >> Colorado, USA >> >>> > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > [email protected] > https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology >
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