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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;1. ''Viṃśikāṭikāvivṛti'' (glosses on Vasubandhu’s ''Viṃśikāvṛtti'' and Vinītadeva’s ''Viṃśikāṭīkā'');<br>
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;2. ''Triṃśikāṭīkāvivṛti'' (glosses on Sthiramati’s ''Triṃśikābhāṣya'' and Vinītadeva’s ''Triṃśikāṭīkā'');<br>
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;3. ''Madhyāntavibhāgakatipayapadavivṛti'' (glosses on Vasubandhu’s ''Madhyāntavibhāgabhāṣya''<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;and Sthiramati’s ''Madhyāntavibhāgaṭīkā'');<br>
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;4. ''Mahāyānottaratantraṭippaṇī'' (glosses on the ''Ratnagotravibhāgavyākhyā'');<br>
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;5. *''Sūtrālaṃkāravivṛti'' (glosses on Vasubandhu’s ''Sūtrālaṃkārabhāṣya'')<ref>The title of the work is not ascertainable from the colophon: ''sūtrālaṃkāraḥ samāptaḥ'' II II ''kṛtiḥ paṇḍitavairocanarakṣitapādānaṃ'' II II. Other possible Sanskrit titles are ''Sūtrālaṃkāravivṛti'', ''Sūtrālaṃkārakatipayapadavivṛti'', or ''Sūtrālaṃkāraṭippaṇī''.</ref> and<br>
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;6. *''Dharmadharmatāvibhāgavivṛti'' (glosses on Vasubandhu’s ''Dharmadharmatāvibhāgavṛtti'').<ref>The title of the work is not ascertainable from the colophon: ''dharmadharmatāvibhā''[''gaḥ'']. The two illegible ''akṣaras'' after °''vibhā'' in the bottom margin are probably ''gaḥ''. Cf. the colophon to the *''Sūtrālaṃkāravivṛti''. One might expect something like ''Dharmadharmatāvibhāgavivṛti'', ''Dharmadharmatāvibhāgakatipayapadavivṛti'' (as suggested by Gokhale 1978: 638), or
 
''Dharmadharmatāvibhāgaṭippaṇī''. In Kano 2005: 142, I referred to this work under the title “Dharmadharmatāvibhā''[''gaṭīkā''],” supplying the three ''akṣaras'' enclosed by square brackets. However, in view of its scope, it can hardly be a ''ṭīkā'', a type of commentary
 
typically more extensive in nature.</ref><br><br>
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;V. Gokhale (1978) was the first to study these works, using Saṅkṛtyāyana’s negatives and the prints made from them, which have been preserved in Patna. He reported titles of the six works, without, however, going into detail because of the poor quality of the images. Subsequently the details of the works remained unknown for a long time, and no complete editions have been published. To be sure, Zuiryū Nakamura edited the text of folios 9''v''<sub>2</sub>–14''v''<sub>7</sub> of the ''Mahāyānottaratantraṭippaṇī'' (the text of folios 15''r''<sub>1</sub>–17''r''<sub>5</sub> remains to be edited);<ref>For his edition, see Nakamura 1985. For studies of this text, see Nakamura 1980, 1982, 1992. Unfortunately, Nakamura’s edition contains many errors (around 190). It is remarkable that his edition shares some notable errors with Jagdishwar Pandey’s modern transcription preserved at Göttingen under the shelf-mark Xc14/90 (which contains a transcription of the full text of the ''Mahāyānottaratantraṭippaṇī''); we can deduce that one of the two was made
 
on the basis of the other. In my unpublished dissertation (Kano 2006b), I have critically edited the whole text of the ''Mahāyānottaratantraṭippaṇī'' and presented a list of corrections to Nakamura’s edition.</ref> and Mathes in his translation of the ''Dharmadharmatāvibhāgavṛtti'' referred to some sentences from the *''Dharmadharmatāvibhāgavivṛti''.<ref>See Mathes 1996: 37, 115-135.</ref> I myself also edited a small portion of the *''Sūtrālaṃkāravivṛti''.<ref>The text of folio 17''r''>sub>7</sub>–''v''<sub>6</sub> of this work is edited in Kano 2006a: 92, n. 40.</ref><br>
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The present paper contains an ''editio princeps'' of the ''Viṃśikāṭīkāvivṛti'' and *''Dharmadharmatāvibhāgavivṛti''. Critical editions of the other three works are under preparation: Francesco Sferra is preparing a critical edition of the ''Madhyāntavibhāgakatipayapadavivṛti'', and I am preparing critical editions of the ''Mahāyānottaratantraṭippaṇī'', the ''Triṃśikāṭīkāvivṛti'' and the *''Sūtrālaṃkāravivṛti'' for publication.<br><br>
 
 
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Two Short Glosses on Yogācāra Texts by Vairocanarakṣita
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Citation: Kano, Kazuo. "Two Short Glosses on Yogācāra Texts by Vairocanarakṣita: Viṃśikāṭīkāvivṛti and *Dharmadharmatāvibhāgavivṛti." In Part 1 of Sanskrit Texts from Giuseppe Tucci's Collection, edited by Francesco Sferra, 343–80. Manuscripta Buddhica 1. Rome: Istituto Italiano per l’Africa e l’Oriente (IsIAO), 2008.

Abstract

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In Giuseppe Tucci’s collection of Sanskrit manuscripts and photographed materials, a set of positive prints of texts filmed at Ñor monastery contains a codex unicus of Vairocanaraksita’s (fl. 11th/12th century) Yogācāra/Tathāgatagarbha commentarial works:

   1. Viṃśikāṭikāvivṛti (glosses on Vasubandhu’s Viṃśikāvṛtti and Vinītadeva’s Viṃśikāṭīkā);
   2. Triṃśikāṭīkāvivṛti (glosses on Sthiramati’s Triṃśikābhāṣya and Vinītadeva’s Triṃśikāṭīkā);
   3. Madhyāntavibhāgakatipayapadavivṛti (glosses on Vasubandhu’s Madhyāntavibhāgabhāṣya
       and Sthiramati’s Madhyāntavibhāgaṭīkā);
   4. Mahāyānottaratantraṭippaṇī (glosses on the Ratnagotravibhāgavyākhyā);
   5. *Sūtrālaṃkāravivṛti (glosses on Vasubandhu’s Sūtrālaṃkārabhāṣya)2 and
   6. *Dharmadharmatāvibhāgavivṛti (glosses on Vasubandhu’s Dharmadharmatāvibhāgavṛtti).3

      V. Gokhale (1978) was the first to study these works, using Saṅkṛtyāyana’s negatives and the prints made from them, which have been preserved in Patna. He reported titles of the six works, without, however, going into detail because of the poor quality of the images. Subsequently the details of the works remained unknown for a long time, and no complete editions have been published. To be sure, Zuiryū Nakamura edited the text of folios 9v2–14v7 of the Mahāyānottaratantraṭippaṇī (the text of folios 15r1–17r5 remains to be edited);4 and Mathes in his translation of the Dharmadharmatāvibhāgavṛtti referred to some sentences from the *Dharmadharmatāvibhāgavivṛti.5 I myself also edited a small portion of the *Sūtrālaṃkāravivṛti.6
      The present paper contains an editio princeps of the Viṃśikāṭīkāvivṛti and *Dharmadharmatāvibhāgavivṛti. Critical editions of the other three works are under preparation: Francesco Sferra is preparing a critical edition of the Madhyāntavibhāgakatipayapadavivṛti, and I am preparing critical editions of the Mahāyānottaratantraṭippaṇī, the Triṃśikāṭīkāvivṛti and the *Sūtrālaṃkāravivṛti for publication. (Kano, introduction, 343-44)

Notes
  1. [From title] I am grateful to Prof. Francesco Sferra and Prof. Harunaga Isaacson for a number of text-critical suggestions, and Prof. Lambert Schmithausen for permitting me to use his preliminary handwritten transcription of Vairocanarakṣita’s *Dharmadharmatāvibhāgavivṛti, and also for his very valuable suggestions concerning that text. I am indebted, too, to Mrs. Bärbel Mund of Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen for giving me the permission to use photographic images of the Göttingen Collection, to Dr. Diwakar Acharya for his help with deciphering barely legible letters in the manuscript, to Prof. Toru Yagi for his very valuable suggestions regarding Vairocanarakṣita’s grammatical explanations, to Dr. Martin Delhey, Dr. Kengo Harimoto and Dr. Koichi Takahashi for reading my draft and making many valuable suggestions, and to Prof. Robert Kritzer and Philip Pierce for their English proofreading.
  2. The title of the work is not ascertainable from the colophon: sūtrālaṃkāraḥ samāptaḥ II II kṛtiḥ paṇḍitavairocanarakṣitapādānaṃ II II. Other possible Sanskrit titles are Sūtrālaṃkāravivṛti, Sūtrālaṃkārakatipayapadavivṛti, or Sūtrālaṃkāraṭippaṇī.
  3. The title of the work is not ascertainable from the colophon: dharmadharmatāvibhā[gaḥ]. The two illegible akṣaras after °vibhā in the bottom margin are probably gaḥ. Cf. the colophon to the *Sūtrālaṃkāravivṛti. One might expect something like Dharmadharmatāvibhāgavivṛti, Dharmadharmatāvibhāgakatipayapadavivṛti (as suggested by Gokhale 1978: 638), or Dharmadharmatāvibhāgaṭippaṇī. In Kano 2005: 142, I referred to this work under the title “Dharmadharmatāvibhā[gaṭīkā],” supplying the three akṣaras enclosed by square brackets. However, in view of its scope, it can hardly be a ṭīkā, a type of commentary typically more extensive in nature.
  4. For his edition, see Nakamura 1985. For studies of this text, see Nakamura 1980, 1982, 1992. Unfortunately, Nakamura’s edition contains many errors (around 190). It is remarkable that his edition shares some notable errors with Jagdishwar Pandey’s modern transcription preserved at Göttingen under the shelf-mark Xc14/90 (which contains a transcription of the full text of the Mahāyānottaratantraṭippaṇī); we can deduce that one of the two was made on the basis of the other. In my unpublished dissertation (Kano 2006b), I have critically edited the whole text of the Mahāyānottaratantraṭippaṇī and presented a list of corrections to Nakamura’s edition.
  5. See Mathes 1996: 37, 115-135.
  6. The text of folio 17r>sub>7–v6 of this work is edited in Kano 2006a: 92, n. 40.