Author: Katarzyna Marciniak | AAV 34 (2021) | Pages: 177-204 | https://doi.org/10.60018/AcAsVa.xauz6960
Abstract
The paper presents an edition, translation, and analysis of two metrical lists of the major marks of a Great Man (mahāpuruṣalakṣaṇa), which occur in the Mahāvastu. The lists consist of one-word designations pertaining to particular features. The edition is based on the oldest manuscript of the Mahāvastu, the so-called Ms. Sa, which offers better readings than those proposed by Émile Senart in his editio princeps of the text from 1882–1897.
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AdsP = The Gilgit Manuscript of the Aṣṭādaśasāhasrikāprajñāpāramitā: Chapters 70 to 82 Corresponding to the 6th, 7th and 8th Abhisamayas, edited and translated by Edward Conze, Serie Orientale Roma 46. Roma: Istituto Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente, 1974.
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Ms. Sa = manuscript Sa of the Mahāvastu.
Mv = Mahāvastu.
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