Materials for an Edition and Study of the Pinda- and Ohanijjuttis of the Svetambara Jain Tradition.

• Author: ROCHER, LURO
• Position: Includes another review - Review

Materials for an Edition and Study of the Pinda- and Ohanijjuttis of the [acute{S}]vet[hat{a}]mbara Jain Tradition. By WILLEM B. BOLL[acute{E}E. Beitr[ddot{a}]ge zur S[ddot{u}]dasienforschung, S[ddot{u}]dasien-Institut, Universita[ddot{a}]t Heidelberg, nos. 142, 162. Pp. xv + 160, xiii + 418. Stuttgart: FRANZ STEINER VERLAG, 1991; 1994. DM 38; 146.

The Nijjuttis on the Seniors of the [acute{S}]vet[hat{a}]mbara Siddh[hat{a}]nta, [bar{A}]y[bar{a}ranga, Dasavey[bar{a}liya, Uttarajjh[bar{a}y[bar{a} and S[bar{u}yagada: Text and Selective Glossary. By WILLEM B. BOLLE[acute{E}]E. Beitr[ddot{a}]ge zur S[ddot{u}]udasienforschung, S[ddot{u}]dasien-Institut, Universit[ddot{a}]t Heidelberg, no. 169. Stuttgart: FRANZ STEINER VERLAG, 1995. Pp. ix + 197. DM 74.

Willem B(oudewijn) Boll[ddot{a}]g e earned the Ph.D. degree, in the Caland-Gonda tradition, at the University of Utrecht, with a thesis Sadvim[ddot{s}]a-br[bar{a}]hmana: Introduction, Translation, Extracts from the Commentary and Notes (Utrecht: Drukkerij A. Storm, 1956). Fourteen years later he wrote on Buddhism, first the Kun[bar{a}]laj[bar{a}]taka: Being an Edition and Translation (London: Luzac, 1970), "a sample, or perhaps the beginning, of a new European critical edition of the J[bar{a}]takas, after Fausb[ddot{o}]ll's "(p.v); his interest in Buddhist literature continued with The P[bar{a}]das of the Suttanip[bar{a}]ta (Reinbek, 1980) and the Reverse index of the Dhammapada, Suttanip[bar{a}]ta, Thera- and Ther[bar{i}]g[bar{a}]th[bar{a}] P[bar{a}]das (Reinbek, 1983). Meanwhile Boll[acute{e}]e also worked on Jainism, first with Studien zum S[bar{u}]yagada, 2 vols. (Wiesbaden: Steiner, 1977, 1988), "ein erster Versuch..., einige durch die Charakterisierung verschiedener Weltanschauungen thematisch verbund ene St[ddot{u}]cke eines Textes aus dem Kanon der [acute{S}]vet[hat{a}]mbar Jains herauszugeben" (vol. 1, p. vii); and, more recently, in rapid succession, with the three volumes under review.

Twenty-five years...