A New Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Reader

By Professor Boris Oguibénine; Contribution by Dr. Katarzyna Marciniak

Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit is not a deteriorated Sanskrit (as many believed at the discovery of Buddhist texts in Sanskrit), but, following the theoretical foundations underlying the pioneering work of Franklin Edgerton, a language with its grammar and vocabulary sui generis implemented rather consequently, which for a long period of time was used to spread the teaching of Buddha. The Reader is meant as a textbook for advanced students with an interest in non-standard Sanskrit and Middle Indo-Aryan. A substantial novelty of the Reader is that it includes extracts from representative texts either recently critically re-edited on the basis of new manuscripts or from the texts unknown at the time of Edgerton’s publications. All extracts are accompanied by commentaries explaining their grammatical peculiarities as well as by selections of specific lexical items.

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Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit is not a deteriorated Sanskrit (as many believed at the discovery of Buddhist texts in Sanskrit), but, following the theoretical foundations underlying the pioneering work of Franklin Edgerton, a language with its grammar and vocabulary sui generis implemented rather consequently, which for a long period of time was used to spread the teaching of Buddha.

The Reader is meant as a textbook for advanced students with an interest in non-standard Sanskrit and Middle Indo-Aryan. A substantial novelty of the Reader is that it includes extracts from representative texts either recently critically re-edited on the basis of new manuscripts or from the texts unknown at the time of Edgerton’s publications. All extracts are accompanied by commentaries explaining their grammatical peculiarities as well as by selections of specific lexical items.

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"A New Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Reader’ by Boris Oguibénine is a must-read book for everyone who wants to master Buddhist Sanskrit. It can be helpful for university courses as well as for self-study. The Reader should be considered an example for other learning books that cover other types of Sanskrit texts, including scholastic works."

"Particularly interesting is the discussion in the Introduction of such problems as the status of Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit as a linguistic phenomenon, its origin and its position in Middle Indo-Aryan, as well as linguistic and stylistic varieties of Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit literary production. Attention is drawn to the crucial problem putatively impossible to solve as J. Brough delineated it: the demarcation between the texts composed directly in Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit and the texts transposed from original Prākrits. In the first case, this language may be considered as a linguistic tool sui generis with strong tendencies to form a system; the second case portrays it as a lingua franca of Indian Buddhism."

Excerpts translated from Е.А. ДЕСНИЦКАЯ, Письменные памятники Востока. 2024. Том 21. No 2 (вып. 57)

"In summary, the New Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Reader is a valuable resource for advanced students wishing to familiarize themselves with the peculiarities of Buddhist Sanskrit texts.. Despite (several) shortcomings, the new reader remains an enriching addition to the study of Buddhist literature and offers a representative compilation of texts with many detailed annotations on the peculiarities of Buddhist (Hybrid) Sanskrit."

Andrea Schlosser, Orientalistische Literaturzeitung, vol. 119,issue 4 & 5, 2024

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Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit is not a deteriorated Sanskrit (as many believed at the discovery of Buddhist texts in Sanskrit), but, following the theoretical foundations underlying the pioneering work of Franklin Edgerton, a language with its grammar and vocabulary sui generis implemented rather consequently, which for a long period of time was used to spread the teaching of Buddha.

The Reader is meant as a textbook for advanced students with an interest in non-standard Sanskrit and Middle Indo-Aryan. A substantial novelty of the Reader is that it includes extracts from representative texts either recently critically re-edited on the basis of new manuscripts or from the texts unknown at the time of Edgerton’s publications. All extracts are accompanied by commentaries explaining their grammatical peculiarities as well as by selections of specific lexical items.

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Excerpts translated from Е.А. ДЕСНИЦКАЯ, Письменные памятники Востока. 2024. Том 21. No 2 (вып. 57)

Andrea Schlosser, Orientalistische Literaturzeitung, vol. 119,issue 4 & 5, 2024

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	Contributor	Biography
	Professor BorisOguibénine	Boris L. Oguibénine was educated in the Moscow State University. He has been on the staff of the Institute of Oriental Studies in Moscow before lecturing at the University of Vienna (Austria) and joining the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France) and the University of Strasbourg of which he is the Emeritus since 2009. His interests are Vedic and Buddhist Sanskrit, Indo-European comparative linguistics and philology. His chief publications in the field of Buddhist Sanskrit are: Initiation pratique à l'étude du sanskrit bouddhique, Paris: Picard, 1996. B. Oguibénine with Y. Ousaka и M. Yamazaki, Prātimokṣasūtram. Word Index and ReverseWord Index. Tokyo: Chūō Academic Research Institute, 2001 (PhilologicaAsiatica, Monograph Series 17). B. Oguibénine with E. Fauré, Y. Ousaka и M. Yamazaki) Mahāvastu-Avadāna. WordIndex and Reverse Word Index. Tokyo: Chūō Academic Research Institute, 2009 (Philologica Asiatica, Monograph Series 25). A Descriptive Grammar of Buddhist Sanskrit. The language of the Textual Tradition of the Mahāsāṃghika-Lokottoravādins. General Introduction. Sound Patterns. Sandhi Patterns. Washington DC: Institute for the Study of Man, 2016.
	Dr. KatarzynaMarciniak	Katarzyna Marciniak studied Indology at the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Warsaw. In 2016-2020 she was a research associate at The International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology at Soka University, Japan. Since 2021 she has been head of the Research Centre of Buddhist Studies at the University of Warsaw. Her interests include Buddhist narrative literature, Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit, manuscriptology and paleography (Nepalese and North Indian manuscripts, in particular). Her chief publications in the field of Buddhist Sanskrit are: The Mahāvastu. A New Edition. Vol. II. Bibliotheca Philologica et Philosophica Buddhica XV, 1. The International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology, Soka University, Tokyo 2020. The Mahāvastu. A New Edition. Vol. III. Bibliotheca Philologica et Philosophica Buddhica XIV, 1. The International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology, Soka University, Tokyo 2019. Studia nad Mahāvastu, sanskryckim tekstem buddyjskiej szkoły mahasanghików-lokottarawadinów (Studies on the Mahāvastu, a Buddhist Sanskrit text of the Mahāsāṃghika-Lokottaravādins), Research Centre of Buddhist Studies, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Warsaw 2014.

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Professor BorisOguibénine

Boris L. Oguibénine was educated in the Moscow State University. He has been on the staff of the Institute of Oriental Studies in Moscow before lecturing at the University of Vienna (Austria) and joining the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France) and the University of Strasbourg of which he is the Emeritus since 2009. His interests are Vedic and Buddhist Sanskrit, Indo-European comparative linguistics and philology.

His chief publications in the field of Buddhist Sanskrit are:

Initiation pratique à l'étude du sanskrit bouddhique, Paris: Picard, 1996.

B. Oguibénine with Y. Ousaka и M. Yamazaki, Prātimokṣasūtram. Word Index and ReverseWord Index. Tokyo: Chūō Academic Research Institute, 2001 (PhilologicaAsiatica, Monograph Series 17).

B. Oguibénine with E. Fauré, Y. Ousaka и M. Yamazaki) Mahāvastu-Avadāna. WordIndex and Reverse Word Index. Tokyo: Chūō Academic Research Institute, 2009 (Philologica Asiatica, Monograph Series 25).

A Descriptive Grammar of Buddhist Sanskrit. The language of the Textual Tradition of the Mahāsāṃghika-Lokottoravādins. General Introduction. Sound Patterns. Sandhi Patterns. Washington DC: Institute for the Study of Man, 2016.

Dr. KatarzynaMarciniak

Katarzyna Marciniak studied Indology at the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Warsaw. In 2016-2020 she was a research associate at The International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology at Soka University, Japan. Since 2021 she has been head of the Research Centre of Buddhist Studies at the University of Warsaw. Her interests include Buddhist narrative literature, Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit, manuscriptology and paleography (Nepalese and North Indian manuscripts, in particular).

Her chief publications in the field of Buddhist Sanskrit are:

The Mahāvastu. A New Edition. Vol. II. Bibliotheca Philologica et Philosophica Buddhica XV, 1. The International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology, Soka University, Tokyo 2020.
The Mahāvastu. A New Edition. Vol. III. Bibliotheca Philologica et Philosophica Buddhica XIV, 1. The International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology, Soka University, Tokyo 2019.
Studia nad Mahāvastu, sanskryckim tekstem buddyjskiej szkoły mahasanghików-lokottarawadinów (Studies on the Mahāvastu, a Buddhist Sanskrit text of the Mahāsāṃghika-Lokottaravādins), Research Centre of Buddhist Studies, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Warsaw 2014.

Preface (vii)
Abbreviations (viii)
Foreword (xv)
Introduction (1)
I. Mahāvastu. The Chapter of the Thousand (19)
II. Patna Dharmapada XXI. Sahasravarggaḥ (27)
III. Udānavarga XXIV. Peyālavarga (35)
IV. Mahāvastu. The Story of Sabhika (41)
V. Mahāvastu. History of Kings (57)
VI. Mahāvastu. Puṇyavantajātaka (71)
VII. Mahāvastu. The Kuśa-Jātaka (89)
VIII. Prātimokṣasūtra of the Mahāsāṃghika-Lokottaravādins. Introductory Stanzas (137)
IX. Prātimokṣasūtra of the Mahāsāṃghika-Lokottaravādins. The Thirteen Saṃghātiśeṣā Dharmāḥ (149)
X. Bhikṣuṇī-Vinaya. Pācattika-Dharma 141 (161)
XI. Śikṣāsamuccaya (167)
XII. Dharmacakrapravartana (169)
XIII. Kacchapajātaka (183)
XIV. Ratnaguṇasaṃcayagāthā (191)
XV. Saddharmapuṇḍarīkasūtra (209)
XVI. Mahāsudarśanāvadāna (247)
XVII. Abhisamācārikā Dharmāḥ (259)
XVIII. Karuṇāpuṇḍarīkasūtra (277)
XIX. A Fragment of the Prātimokṣa-Vibhaṅga of the Mahāsāṃghika-Lokottaravādins (295)
XX. Kāśyapaparivarta (301)
XXI. The Gāthās of the Samādhirājasūtra (315)
XXII. The Gāthās of the Lalitavistara (335)
XXIII. Lalitavistara (excerpt). Asita the Sage (343)
XXIV. Vajracchedikā Prajñāpāramitā (361)
Grammatical Index (377)

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