Sanskrit Verses from Candrakīrtiʼs Triśaraṇasaptati Cited in the Munimatālaṃkāra

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|ArticleTitle=Sanskrit Verses from Candrakīrti's Triśaraṇasaptati Cited in the Munimatālaṃkāra
|AuthorPage=Kano, K.; Li, X.
|PubDate=2014
|ArticleSummary=The present paper provides newly available Sanskrit fragments (11½ verses) from the ''Triśaraṇasaptati'' attributed to Candrakīrti.<ref>Sorensen (1986) claims that the work was authored by Candrakīrti, i.e., the author of the ''Prasannapadā'',
''Madhyamakāvatāra'', etc. (The question of authorship is outside the focus of the present paper.)</ref> These verses are found in the Sanskrit manuscript of
Abhayākaraguptaʼs ''Munimatālaṃkāra''.<ref>For the details of the Sanskrit manuscript, see Li 2013 and Kano & Li 2013.</ref><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;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).<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;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").<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;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)<ref>The verses in Passage A were identified by Isoda (1984).</ref> 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)
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