NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT Cāndravyākaraṇa 1.3 The Section on Primary Derivatives of Candragomin’s Grammar of Sanskrit
A critical edition of the Cāndrasūtra, Vr̥tti, and Pañjikā by Mahesh Deokar, Dragomir Dimitrov, and Chōjun Yazaki Pune 2024 Pune Indological Series, vol. V Hardcover, lv, 167 pp. Department of Pali and Buddhist Studies, Savitribai Phule Pune University ISBN: 978-81-956499-5-2 Price: INR 3495 SUMMARY: More than one hundred years after the great German indologist Bruno Liebich (1862–1939) published for the first time the complete texts of Candragomin’s Cāndrasūtra (fifth century AD) and the Cāndravr̥tti, a new edition of these important grammatical works based on more handwritten materials from South Asia has been long overdue. The present book containing Cāndravyākaraṇa 1.3 is offered with the aim to fulfil even just partially this desideratum. Apart from a new release of that part of Candragomin’s main grammatical treatise which deals with the primary derivatives in Sanskrit, this publication includes a new edition of the corresponding part of the Cāndravr̥tti, as well as an editio princeps of the Cāndrapañjikā. The edition of the Cāndravr̥tti, a seminal commentary most likely authored by Candragomin himself, is based on several more Nepalese manuscripts apart from those few codices used by Liebich at the turn of the twentieth century and was prepared while consulting in addition other important sources which helped to establish a more reliable version of this grammatical work. For the hitherto unedited Cāndrapañjikā (tenth century), Ratnamati’s commentary on the Cāndravr̥tti, three fragmentary palm-leaf manuscripts discovered in Nepal, India, and Tibet were used and the Moggallānavyākaraṇa (twelfth century), Moggallāna’s Pali grammar indebted to Candragomin and Ratnamati/Ratnaśrījñāna, was also considered throughout. Besides the edited Sanskrit texts, the present book contains an introduction with a detailed exposition of the long history of Cāndra studies and an overview of the handwritten materials used for the purpose of the editions included here. This publication containing Candragomin’s Cāndravyākaraṇa 1.3, the section on the primary derivatives in Sanskrit, together with the corresponding parts of its two most important commentaries, the Cāndravr̥tti and the Cāndrapañjikā, may appeal to readers with interest in Indian grammar, philology, textual criticism, manuscriptology, and the history of sciences. The printed book as well as an e-book version (PDF) can be ordered at: https://scms.unipune.ac.in/pis With best wishes, Dragomir Dimitrov ________________________________________ Prof. Dr. Dragomir Dimitrov Indologie und Tibetologie Philipps-Universität Marburg Deutschhausstr. 12 D-35032 Marburg Germany Tel.: +49 178 9190340, +91 9922514639 E-mail: [email protected] http://www.uni-marburg.de/indologie https://www.dragomir-dimitrov.net _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ INDOLOGY mailing list [email protected] https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology
