Indic Manuscript Cultures through the Ages

Studies in Manuscript Cultures

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Volume 14
Indic Manuscript
Cultures through
the Ages

Material, Textual, and Historical Investigations

Edited by
Vincenzo Vergiani, Daniele Cuneo,
Camillo Alessio Formigatti
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Contents
Vincenzo Vergiani
Preface | IX

Collections

Camillo A. Formigatti
Sanskrit Manuscripts in the Cambridge University Library: Three Centuries of
History and Preservation | 3

Nalini Balbir
The Cambridge Jain Manuscripts: Provenances, Highlights, Colophons | 47

Vincenzo Vergiani
A Tentative History of the Sanskrit Grammatical Traditions in Nepal through the
Manuscript Collections | 77

Dominic Goodall
What Information can be Gleaned from Cambodian Inscriptions about Practices
Relating to the Transmission of Sanskrit Literature? | 131

Codicology (from Orality to Print)

Eva Wilden
Tamil Satellite Stanzas: Genres and Distribution | 163

Giovanni Ciotti
Teaching and Learning Sanskrit through Tamil
Evidence from Manuscripts of the Amarakośa with Tamil Annotations (Studies in
Late Manipravalam Literature 2) | 193

Jürgen Hanneder
Pre-modern Sanskrit Authors, Editors and Readers | 223
VI | Contents

Cristina Scherrer-Schaub
The Poetic and Prosodic Aspect of the Page. Forms and Graphic Artifices of
Early Indic Buddhist Manuscripts in Historical Perspective| 239

Michela Clemente and Filippo Lunardo

Typology of Drawn Frames in 16th Century Mang yul Gung thang
Xylographs| 287

Emmanuel Francis
The Other Way Round: From Print to Manuscript| 319

Palaeography

Kengo Harimoto
The Dating of the Cambridge Bodhisattvabhūmi Manuscript Add.1702| 355

Marco Franceschini
On Some Markers Used in a Grantha Manuscript of the Ṛgveda Padapāṭha Be-
longing to the Cambridge University Library (Or.2366) | 377

Textual criticism

Francesco Sferra
A Fragment of the Vajrāmṛtamahātantra. A Critical Edition of the Leaves Con-
tained in Cambridge University Library Or.158.1| 409

Gergely Hidas
Mahā-Daṇḍadhāraṇī-Śītavatī: A Buddhist Apotropaic Scripture | 449

Péter-Dániel Szántó
Minor Vajrayāna Texts IV. A Sanskrit Fragment of the Rigyarallitantra | 487

Florinda De Simini
When Lachmann’s Method Meets the Dharma of Śiva. Common Errors, Scribal
Interventions, and the Transmission of the Śivadharma Corpus | 505
 Contents | VII

Cultural Studies

Daniele Cuneo
Vivid Images, Not Opaque Words
UL Add.864, the so-called Cambridge Kalāpustaka Manuscript from Early Modern
Nepal | 551

Florinda De Simini and Nina Mirnig

Umā and Śiva’s Playful Talks in Detail (Lalitavistara): On the Production of Śaiva
Works and their Manuscripts in Medieval Nepal
Studies on the Śivadharma and the Mahābhārata 1 | 587

Lata Mahesh Deokar

Subantaratnākara: An Unknown Text of Subhūticandra | 655

Mahesh A. Deokar
The Cāndravyākaraṇapañjikā: An Important Tool for the Study of the Mogga-
llānavuttivivaraṇapañcikā
A Case Study Based on a Cambridge Fragment of the Cāndravyākaraṇapañjikā
with Special Reference to CV 2.2.1 and MV 3.11 | 695

Hugo David
Towards a Critical Edition of Śaṅkara’s ‘Longer’ Aitareyopaniṣadbhāṣya: a Pre-
liminary Report Based on two Cambridge Manuscripts | 727

List of Contributors| 755

Indexes| 761