Chapitre D'ouvrage Année : 2011

Habent sua fata libelli: The Dārilabhāṣya and its manuscripts

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The Dārilabhāṣhya (DB) is the most important commentary on the Kauśikasūtra (KauśS) which made it to us, besides the Keśavapaddhati (KP) and other works which were lost (the works of Paiṭhīnasi, Rudra, and Bhadra). Dārila’s authority is quite acknowledged, as he is quoted by the later Atharvavedic exegetical literature all through the ages. Yet, Dārila’s technical and difficult text was actually no longer known by first hand after Keśava or probably Sāyaṇa. His technical and erudite work was, if not hermetical, at least not read any longer by later exegetes, who were paying merely lip service by referring to him. By the late 18th century his commentary was no longer understood by the scribes, as we learn from Devabhadra who had an illegible manuscript of the same. Similarly, hard to decipher, are the three DB mss. written in the 19th century: one 1) dated śaka 1762 (1840 CE) obtained by Julius EGGELING and given to National Library of Berlin, and two in private collections and which are lost till date, 2) dated śaka 1752 (1830 CE) in the possession of Gore family of Māhulī, and 3) dated saṃvat 1884 (1829 CE) in the possession of Gore family of Gwalior. If we are to trust BLOOMFIELD (1889: iii) that ms. 1) and ms. 2) are “very faithful copies of the same original”32, it may stand to reason ms. 3) as their source, which is “old”, allegedly “incomplete” as the other two, and “correct” (i.e. not having corrections on the margins?) unlike the first two which might have been corrected and added glosses in Marāṭhī under Paṇḍit Ganeśa Bhaṭṭa’s teaching.

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Julieta Rotaru. Habent sua fata libelli: The Dārilabhāṣya and its manuscripts. Editura Biblioteca Metropolitană București. Travaux de Symposium International Le livre. La Roumanie. L’Europe, Troisième édition, 20-24 Septembre 2010, tome III. La troisième section : études euro- et afro-asiatiques, Veda-Vedāṅga et Avesta entre oralité et écriture, Jan Houben et Julieta Rotaru, eds., pp.672-695, 2011, 2068-9756. ⟨hal-04857864⟩

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