SMC 14

This collection of essays explores the history of the book in pre-modern South Asia looking at the production, circulation, fruition and preservation of manuscripts in different areas and across time. Edited by the team of the Cambridge-based Sanskrit Manuscripts Project and including contributions of the researchers who collaborated with it, it covers a wide range of topics related to South Asian manuscript culture: from the material dimension (palaeography, layout, decoration) and the complicated interactions of manuscripts with printing in late medieval Tibet and in modern Tamil Nadu, to reading, writing, editing and educational practices, from manuscripts as sources for the study of religious, literary and intellectual traditions, to the creation of collections in medieval India and Cambodia (one major centre of the so-called Sanskrit cosmopolis), and the formation of the Cambridge collections in the colonial period. The contributions reflect the variety of idioms, literary genres, religious movements, and social actors (intellectuals, scribes, patrons) of ancient South Asia, as well as the variety of approaches, interests and specialisms of the authors, and their impassionate engagement with manuscripts.

FrontmatterI - IV

ContentsV- VIII

PrefaceIX - XVIII
by Vincenzo Vergiani

Collections

Sanskrit Manuscripts in the Cambridge University Library: Three Centuries of History and Preservation3
by Camillo A. Formigatti

The Cambridge Jain Manuscripts: Provenances, Highlights, Colophons47
by Nalini Balbir

A Tentative History of the Sanskrit Grammatical Traditions in Nepal through the Manuscript Collections77
by Vincenzo Vergiani

What Information can be Gleaned from Cambodian Inscriptions about
Practices Relating to the Transmission of Sanskrit Literature?131
by Dominic Goodall

Codicology (from Orality to Print)

Tamil Satellite Stanzas: Genres and Distribution163
by Eva Wilden

Teaching and Learning Sanskrit through Tamil:
Evidence from Manuscripts of the Amarakośa with Tamil Annotations
(Studies in Late Manipravalam Literature 2)193
by Giovanni Ciotti

Pre-modern Sanskrit Authors, Editors and Readers223
by Jürgen Hanneder

The Poetic and Prosodic Aspect of the Page.
Forms and Graphic Artifices of Early Indic Buddhist Manuscripts in Historical Perspective239
by Cristina Scherrer-Schaub

Typology of Drawn Frames in 16^th Century Mang yul Gung thang Xylographs|287
by Michela Clemente and Filippo Lunardo

The Other Way Round: From Print to Manuscript319
by Emmanuel Francis

Palaeography

The Dating of the Cambridge Bodhisattvabhūmi Manuscript Add.1702355
by Kengo Harimoto

On Some Markers Used in a Grantha Manuscript of the Ṛgveda Padapāṭha
Belonging to the Cambridge University Library (Or.2366)377
by Marco Franceschini

Textual criticism

A Fragment of the Vajrāmṛtamahātantra.
A Critical Edition of the Leaves Contained in Cambridge University Library Or.158.1409
by Francesco Sferra

Mahā-Daṇḍadhāraṇī-Śītavatī: A Buddhist Apotropaic Scripture449
by Gergely Hidas

Minor Vajrayāna Texts IV. A Sanskrit Fragment of the Rigyarallitantra487
by Péter-Dániel Szántó

When Lachmann’s Method Meets the Dharma of Śiva.
Common Errors, Scribal Interventions, and the Transmission of the Śivadharma Corpus505
by Florinda De Simini

Cultural Studies

Vivid Images, Not Opaque Words:
UL Add.864, the so-called Cambridge Kalāpustaka Manuscript from Early Modern Nepal551
by Daniele Cuneo

Umā and Śiva’s Playful Talks in Detail (Lalitavistara):
On the Production of Śaiva Works and their Manuscripts in Medieval Nepal - Studies on the Śivadharma and the Mahābhārata 1587
by Florinda De Simini and Nina Mirnig

Subantaratnākara: An Unknown Text of Subhūticandra655
by Lata Mahesh Deokar

The Cāndravyākaraṇapañjikā:
An Important Tool for the Study of the Moggallānavuttivivaraṇapañcikā -
A Case Study Based on a Cambridge Fragment of
the Cāndravyākaraṇapañjikā with Special Reference to CV 2.2.1 and MV 3.11695
by Mahesh A. Deokar

Towards a Critical Edition of Śaṅkara’s ‘Longer’ Aitareyopaniṣadbhāṣya:
a Preliminary Report Based on two Cambridge Manuscripts727
by Hugo David


List of Contributors755

Index of Persons761