PTS Subodhaala"nkaara with 2 .tiikaas
From: Jim Anderson
Message: 2263
Date: 2007-10-02
Dear members,
I recently received a book relating to rhetoric in the mail from PTS and
thought I would give some description of it for your information.
The book contains three Pali texts with the following titles given on the
title page:
Subodhaala"nkaara
Poraa.na-.tiikaa (Mahaasaami-.tiikaa)
Abhinava-.tiikaa (Nissaya)
This is an edition (xix+315 pp.) prepared by Padmanabh S. Jaini and
published by PTS in 2000. The work is based on the Buddhasaasanasamiti
edition published in Rangoon, 1964. He includes variant readings from the
footnotes in that edition and unusual readings from Siilaacaara's edition
published in Mandalay, 1928. Jaini's text looks very much the same as the
Subodhaala"nkaara-.tiikaa text on the Cha.t.thasa"ngaayana CD. I notice that
the title of the CSCD version suggests nothing about it actually containing
two .tiikaas (the old & new one). The Subodhaala"nkaara is a short work
consisting of 367 verses. The arrangement is that a verse is given first and
this is followed by each of the two commentaries on that particular verse
and then the next verse is taken up followed by the two commentaries and so
on. Sa"ngharakkhita, a Sinhalese monk of the 13th cent. is the author of the
Subodhaala"nkaara and the Pora.na-.tiikaa. The Abhinava-.tiikaa is taken as
an anonymous work by Jaini even though the work is ascribed, according to
oral tradition, to Dhammakitti-Ratanapajjota living during the reign of King
Narapati (1442-68) in Burma. Jaini discusses his doubts about the authorship
of this .tiikaa in his Introduction.
The text is divided up into 5 chapters (paricchedas) as follows:
1. Dosaavabodha (Faults of Composition)
2. Dosaparihaaraavabodha (Avoidance of the Faults)
3. Gu.naavabodha (Merits of Composition)
4. Atthaala"nkaaraavabodha (Rhetorical Figures)
5. Rasabhaavaavabodha (Poetic Sentiments)
Title translations are from the Introduction, p. xv. There are three short
indexes at the back of the book.
Best wishes,
Jim
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