Dear Matthew (if I may) and Indologists, It is unlikely to shed much light on your question about "older versions" of the text, pre-14/15th C., but for whatever it may be worth, here's my 2 rupees:
The 16th century Odia poet, Jaśobant Dāsa (aka. Yashovant Das), translated/transcreated an Odia version of the text under the title *Śiba Swarodaẏa*. For that reason, several secondary sources on Odia literature, like Mohanty's *Oḍiśāra Nātha Saṃpradāya o Nāthasāhitya* and MIshra's *The Cult of Jagannātha, *discuss the *Svarodaya*, particularly in relation to other slightly related Odia works like the *Saptāṅgajogasāraṭikā* of Baḷarāma Dāsa. Unfortunately, these treatments are often very brief and cursory. Nonetheless, I still offer these leads because -- depending on your penchant or masochism (/joking) -- you might find more on the topic in other Anglophone studies of Odia literature. Admittedly, it's a bit of a long shot though. Either way, I'll be interested to see what arises from your study of the two collections of Tibetan diagrams. *Sincerely,* *Westin Harris* Ph.D. Candidate Study of Religion University of California, Davis https://religionsgrad.ucdavis.edu/people/westin-harris <https://religions.ucdavis.edu/people/westin-harris> 2021 Dissertation Fellow, The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Program in Buddhist Studies Sarva Mangalam. On Wed, Jul 17, 2024 at 1:45 PM Matthew Kapstein via INDOLOGY < [email protected]> wrote: > Dear David, > > Many thanks for your messages, though, with the exception of your edition, > which I look forward to seeing soon, these materials are known to me. The > YuddhajayArNava, of which there are many manuscripts in Kashmir and Nepal, > but some also in western collections, is pretty clearly related with the > Tibetan, though I've not yet mapped out just how close the correspondences > are. My query concerned more the general category of "svarodaya," which > seems to cover a wide range of works whose structural and substantial > connections are not yet at all clear to me, if indeed such connections are > to be found amongst them (my hunch is that they are, but I don't want to > get ahead of myself....) > > I attach here the chapter on divination from my recent volumes on Tibetan > manuscripts, which has a brief section on the svarodaya diagrams in Tibet. > The short project I'm actually developing concerns two collections of these > diagrams (cakra), but in this context I want to be able to say something > more about the background and origins. > > with thanks for your interest and best regards, > Matthew > > Matthew T. Kapstein > Professor emeritus > Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, PSL Research University, Paris > > Associate > The University of Chicago Divinity School > > https://ephe.academia.edu/MatthewKapstein > > https://vajrabookshop.com/product/the-life-and-work-of-auleshi/ > > > https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501716218/tibetan-manuscripts-and-early-printed-books-volume-i/#bookTabs=1 > > > https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501771255/tibetan-manuscripts-and-early-printed-books-volume-ii/#bookTabs=1 > > https://brill.com/edcollbook/title/60949 > > Sent with Proton Mail <https://proton.me/> secure email. > > On Wednesday, July 17th, 2024 at 5:23 PM, David and Nancy Reigle < > [email protected]> wrote: > > P.S. > Also a second Sanskrit manuscript of the > *Yuddhajayārṇava-tantra-svarodaya*: > > https://archive.org/details/YuddhaJayarnava5455Alm25Shlf1GhaDevanagariJyotish/page/n3/mode/2up > > On Wed, Jul 17, 2024 at 9:19 AM David and Nancy Reigle <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Dear Matthew, >> >> You very likely already know the three items about to be listed; but >> since no one else has yet replied, at least publicly, I will go ahead with >> these. Perhaps they will be of use if someone else tries to search >> svarodaya in the future. >> >> 1. The *Yuddhajaya-* or *Yuddhajayārṇava-tantra-svarodaya* is found in >> Tibetan translation in the Tengyur, Tohoku no. 4322. What seems to be a >> Sanskrit manuscript of it is available at Archive.org, although I have not >> checked to see if it is the same text. >> >> https://archive.org/details/YuddhaJayarnava5454GhaAlm25Shlf1DevanagariJyotish/page/n7/mode/2up >> >> 2. The *Narapatijayacaryāsvarodayaḥ* is another old Sanskrit svarodaya >> text. It is available at Archive.org in a printed edition: >> >> https://archive.org/details/QwjT_narapati-jayacharya-svarodaya-of-shri-narapati-with-jaya-lakshmi-tika-of-harivansha-1946-khemar >> >> 3. The *Kālacakra-tantra* has a section on svarodaya in chapter 1, >> verses 95-127 (or 94-126 in the Shong ston version), which would have been >> written prior to 1040 CE as determined by John Newman. As you know, my new >> edition of this chapter has just been published: *Kālacakra-tantra: A >> Corrected Edition along with Two Tibetan Translations*, vol. 1. >> >> With best regards, >> >> David Reigle >> Colorado, U.S.A. >> >> On Tue, Jul 16, 2024 at 10:36 AM Matthew Kapstein via INDOLOGY < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Dear friends, >>> >>> To pursue a query I began a few years ago and never followed up on: >>> >>> Is there any scholarship that you are aware of, in the fields of Indian >>> astrology, yoga, tantra, or medicine, on the works variously title >>> Svarodayatantra, Śiva-svarodaya, >>> >>> Svarodaya-vijñāna, etc.? I am primarily interested in older versions of >>> these text, such as may have been in circulation before the fifteenth or >>> sixteenth century. >>> >>> I am of course familiar with Alain Daniélou's *Le Shiva-Svarodaya: La >>> naissance du Souffle de Vie *(Milan 1982). Some searches on the >>> internet have turned up a large number of modern Hindi translations and >>> commentaries that seem mostly to be non-academic and concern popular >>> astrology, ayurveda and the like - I imagine that the situation is similar >>> in other modern Indian languages. (But I would welcome recommendations of >>> works in Hindi that appear to be of value for academic research on the >>> Sanskrit texts.) >>> with thanks, >>> Matthew >>> >>> Matthew T. Kapstein >>> Professor emeritus >>> Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, PSL Research University, Paris >>> >>> Associate >>> The University of Chicago Divinity School >>> >>> https://ephe.academia.edu/MatthewKapstein >>> >>> https://vajrabookshop.com/product/the-life-and-work-of-auleshi/ >>> >>> >>> https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501716218/tibetan-manuscripts-and-early-printed-books-volume-i/#bookTabs=1 >>> >>> >>> https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501771255/tibetan-manuscripts-and-early-printed-books-volume-ii/#bookTabs=1 >>> >>> https://brill.com/edcollbook/title/60949 >>> >>> Sent with Proton Mail <https://proton.me/> secure email. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> INDOLOGY mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology >>> >> > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > [email protected] > https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology >
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