The present paper provides newly available Sanskrit fragments (11½ verses) from the
Triśaraṇasaptati attributed to Candrakīrti
[1] These verses are found in the Sanskrit manuscript of Abhayākaraguptaʼs
Munimatālaṃkāra.
[2] The
Triśaraṇasaptati is a small versified work consisting 68
ślokas, the full text of which is preserved only in Tibetan translation. We find two versions (i.e. recensions) of the
Triśaraṇasaptati in all the Tanjurs. The two versions are almost the same, having been translated by the same translation team (Atiśa and Rin chen bzang po).
Sorensen translated the Tibetan text into English and added to them six verses (12, 13, 33, 45, 46, and 47) in Sanskrit traced in the form of quotations in other works. Sorensenʼs English translation is for the most part faithful to the Tibetan text. The Tibetan translation itself, when compared with the Sanskrit original, is seen on occasion to be imprecise (see below, "Philological Remarks").
Other quotations from the
Triśaraṇasaptati have been found in two passages in the
Munimatālaṃkāra: Passage A (Skt. Ms. 7v1-4; Tib. D 82a7-b3; verses 1, 34, 51, 54, 55, 67) in
Munimatālaṃkāra chapter 1 (the Bodhicittāloka chapter)
[3] and Passage B (Skt. 132r1-3; Tib. D 219a5-b1; 7-9ab, 22-23) in chapter 3 (the Aṣṭābhisamayāloka chapter). When we collate these 11½ verses with the 6 verses independently collected by Sorensen, the total number becomes 17½, which is about 26% of the whole text of the
Triśaraṇasaptati. (Kano and Xuezhu, introductory remarks, 4)
