Die Gilgitfragment des Karandavyuha.

• Author: GUENTHER, HERBERT V.
• Position: Review

Die Gilgitfragment des K[bar{a}]randavy[bar{u}]ha. Edited by ADELHEID METTE. Indica et Tibetica, vol. 29. Swisttal-Odendorf: INDICA ET TIBETICA VERLAG, 1997. Pp. 164. DM 48.

The Gilgit fragments of the K[bar{a}]randavy[bar{u}]ha, its full title being Avalokite[acute{s}]vara-Gunak[bar{a}]randa-Vy[bar{u}] ha, consist of fifty leaves written on birch bark, discovered by Professors Raghu Vira and Lokesh Chandra (father and son) in Gilgit. They are now kept in the National Archives, New Delhi, where the author of the present edition was permitted to consult them in 1986 and compare the original with a Devan[bar{a}]gar[bar{i}] transcription of the manuscript that F. R. Hamm had made between 1950 and 1958. The original Sanskrit manuscript dates back to a period before 630 C.E., while the Nepalese palmleaf manuscript, kept in the British Museum in London, is dated 1196 C.E. The Tibetan translation of the text, the Za-ma-tog bkod-pa, in the sDe-dge edition, mDo 116, made by Jinamitra, D[bar{a}]na[acute{s}][bar{i}]la and the Tibetan redactor Ye-shes-sde, is, for the time...