Essay name: Purana Bulletin
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Affiliation: University of Kerala / Faculty of Oriental Studies
The "Purana Bulletin" is an academic journal published in India. The journal focuses on the study of Puranas, which are a genre of ancient Indian literature encompassing mythological stories, traditions, and philosophical teachings. They represent Hindu scriptures in Sanskrit and cover a wide range of subjects.
Purana, Volume 6, Part 1 (1964)
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पुराणम� - [purāṇam - ] ʱĀ
[Vol. VI., No. 1
Pennsylvania University in Philadelphia, Pa. (CRP). In the
meantime this author was able to secure five additional
texts of CR, viz. MS. 347 of 1892-25 in the Bhandarkar Or. Res.
Institute, Poona (BORI) (CRBh I), the MS. 348 of 1892-95 in
BORI (CRBh II), the MS: Add. 2525 in the University Library
in Cambridge (CRCa I), the MS. Add. 1040 in the University
Library in Cambridge (CRCa II) and the Tibetan text of the
Caṇakya-raja-nīti-sastra, as published by Sunitikumar Pathak
in the Viśva-Bhāratī Annals, Vol. VIII (CRT). On the basis
of these eight texts (in particular CRT and CRCa II, which might
even be extracts from the Bṛhaspati-samhita of the GP) it was
possible to identify all but fifty-six stanzas of the Bṛhaspati-
samhita of the GP3 as identical with at least one of the eight texts
of the CR version, i. e. over eighty-five per cent of the whole
Brhaspati-samhita of the GP. Of the remaining fifteen per cent
(fifty-seven stanzas) those marked with one asterisk, i. e eleven
maxims are found in other versions of Canakya and those marked
with two asterisks, i. e. five stanzas, in other texts of Sanskrit
literature. That would mean that, as long as the ur-text of the
Brhaspati samhita of the GP or other texts of CR are not found,
only thirty-nine stanzas,' i. e. less than ten per cent of the whole
Brhaspati-samhita of GP, are maxims original to the Bṛhaspati-
samhita of the GP.
The following table shows the correlation of the stanzas
of the Brhaspati-samhita of the GP with the eight texts of CR.
1. Described in detail by L. Sternbach in "A new Caṇakya-raja-nīti-
Sastra Manuscript" in Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Bombay, 1958 and Bharatiya
Vidya XVI, Nos. 1-2, pp. 89-143 and Nos. 3-4, pp. 97-124.
2. Also see L. Sternbach, "The Tibetan Canakya-raja-niti-sastra."
ABORI XLII, pp. 99-122. There the author came to the conclusion that the
CRT text is possibly another text of the Brhaspati-samhita of the Garuda-purana.
The CRCa II text seems rather to be an extract of the same work than a text of
the CR version, although in the colophon Canakya is said to be the author.
3. 108.5, 9, 10; 109.16, 31*, 50**, 54; 110.6, 28; 111.11, 14, 19, 20, 25;
112.9*; 113.5, 13*, 20, 26*, 28, 32, 38, 58*, 59; 114.3, 7, 10, 23, 43*, 45*, 53, 64,
65, 71**, 73**, 74; 115.6*, 13*, 14, 19**, 29**, 34, 35, 37, 40, 50, 53, 56-8, 64,
70, 72, 77*, 82, 83 (closing stanza).
4. In reality thirty-eight stanzas, since the last stanza is a closing stanza.
5. The figures followed by an asterisk (*) denote variants (or only
similarities).
GP
1 2
CRT
3 1.6
4 5
800 CRCa II
1 2 3 900
906 6 1.8
7 8
11 247
21 1.17
22 1.18
23 1.19
26 Jan., 1964] CANAKYA'S APHORISMS IN PURĀṆAS
115 CRP
CRB
CRBh I
ADHYAYA 108
CRBh II
CRC
400 1.8
1.8
1.8 1.8
1.8
1.8
1.9 1.9
1.9
1.9
1.9
1.9
909 1.10 1.10 1.10
1.10 1.10.
1.10
1.11 1.11
1.11
1.11 1.13
1.11
1.12
1.12
1.12
306 1.11
1.12
9 10
840 1.17 1.15 1.17 1.17 1.17
12 1.7
4 13 110
1.18 1.16 1.18 1.18 1.18
1.19 1.17 1.19 1.19
1.19
M IS SI NG
1.16
1.17
1.18
14 1.11 5
15 1.12-13 6
16 1.12-13 ...
1.20 1.18
1.21
1.26
1.20
1.20
1.20
1.19
1.19
1.21
1.22 1.22
1.21
1.26 1.27 1.27
1,28
17 ..
18 cf.1.14
19 1.15
1.22 1.20 1.22 123 1.23
... cf.1.27 cf.1 25 cf. 1.27 cf.1.28 cf.1.28
1.28 1.26 1.28 1.29 1.29
1.29
1.27*
1.28
20 1.16
980 1.36 1.32 1.37 1.38 1.38
1.35
7 500
1.39
24 cf.1.21 cf.8
25 1.22 9
908 ***
27 28 cf.1.23
1.43 1.38 1.44 1.45 1.45
2.11 2.12 2.11 2.8 2.12
cf.1.45 cf.1.40 cf.1.46 ... cf.1.54
... cf.1.51 cf.1.46 cf 1.52 cf.1.52 cf.1.57
1.40
2.11
1.42
1.48
1. CR reconstructed in Cr. (see abbreviations).
CRCa 1
CR reconstructed'
