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The Gāndhārī Dharmapada / edited with an introduction and commentary by John Brough.

Contributor(s): Language: engpra Publisher: London, New York : Oxford University Press, ©1962Description: xxv, 319, XXIV pages ; 24 facsimiles : 28 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
Uniform titles:
  • Tipiṭaka. Suttapiṭaka. Khuddakanikāya. Dhammapada. Gandhari Prakrit.
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 294.3 23
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With facsimiles of the manuscript (pages I-XXIV).

University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies, Oriental Series, volume 7.

Includes bliography (pages [viii]-xii) and indices.

Bibliography and abbreviations -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I: The manuscript and the text -- Discovery of the manuscript and publication -- Extant parts and their arrangement, division and missing parts -- Estimated length of the complete text -- General relationships with Pali Dhammapada and Udanavarga -- Varga titles -- Possibility of a 'primitive Dharmapada' -- Canonical status -- Other Dharmapada texts -- Dharmatrata and the Udanavarga -- Buddhavarman -- Affiliation of the Gandhari text -- A mula-sarvastivadin criticism -- The Gandhari language -- Evidence from Chinese transcriptions -- Part II: Paleographical and grammatical -- Dharmapada text -- Commentary -- Concordances -- Indices -- Plates [facsimiles of manuscript].

Buddhist canonical text in Gāndhāri Prakrit, based on rare manuscripts.

In Prakrit (in Kharoṣṭhī script).

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