Prakīrṇaprakāśa

Record edited by Charles LI CNRS, CEIAS, UMR 8564.

 TST Project 2020 Bodleian Library, University of Oxford Chandra Shum Shere d.247

This paper manuscript in Telugu script contains part of the Prakīrṇaprakāśa, by the 10th-century philosopher Helārāja, a commentary on the 5th-century Vākyapadīya of Bhartṛhari. The text extends from the beginning of the Jātisamuddeśa to the end of the Kriyāsamuddeśa, although folios 109, 110 and 111 are missing. It was not known to Wilhelm Rau, but it is described in Dominik Wujastyk's Handlist of the Vyākaraṇa manuscripts in the Chandra Shum Shere Collection preserved in the Bodleian Library. The manuscript was bound into book form by the library, and the folios were numbered by Thomas Gambier-Parry in pencil (Wujastyk 1978, 2). Gambier-Parry's foliation begins at the first flyleaf of the book; the first manuscript folio is numbered 3. Moreover, his foliation does not take into account the missing folios. In this record, the original Telugu foliation has been followed.

This manuscript was bought, as part of a private collection of 6330 manuscripts in Benares, by the Maharaja Sir Chandra Shum Shere in 1909 and presented to the University of Oxford (Wujastyk 1978, 1). The variety of hands and scripts attest to its long journey: the main text in Telugu script show that it was produced in a Telugu-speaking milieu; it was passed on to Benares, where someone annotated it in Devanāgarī script; then, in Oxford, it was further annotated in Latin script by Gambier-Parry.

 PrakīrṇaprakāśaHelārājaśrīgaṇeśāya namaḥ | śrīpataṃjalaye namaḥ | niraṃtarāyo stu |yasmin_ saṃmukhatāṃ prayāti ruciraṃ ko py aṃtarujjṛṃbhate nedīyān mahimā manasy abhinavaḥ puṃsaḥ prakāśātmanaḥ | sāmānyaviśeṣayor atyaṃtabhedābhāvāt_ sakalaviśeṣaparihāreṇa sāmānyarūpānupapatter iti sarvatra siddhiḥ || ❈ || iti śrībhūtirājatanayahelārājakṛte prakīṙṇaprakāśe kriyāsamuddeśo ṣṭamaḥ || ❈ || ❈ || || Folios 109 to 111 missing. Well preserved. Telugu numerals, verso side, top-left and bottom-right corners. Devanāgarī numerals, verso side, bottom-right corner, first 11 folios only. European numerals in pencil, recto side, bottom-right corner, written by Thomas Gambier-Parry. Gambier-Parry's numbering starts at the first flyleaf; the first manuscript folio is numbered 3. On the flyleaf opposite the first folio, the invocation has been transcribed in Latin script. Marginal title, helārājīyaṃ prakīṙṇakāṃḍasya, top-left corner, verso, first folio. Running marginal title, he॰ prakī॰, top-left corner, verso. Folios 2 - 9. Running marginal title, || rāma ||, bottom-right corner, verso. First 9 folios only. On the recto side of the last folio, the completion statement has been transcribed in Devanāgarī script: iti śrībhūtirājatanayahelārājakṛte prakīrṇaprakāśe kriyāsamuddeśo 'ṣṭamaḥ ||. On the verso side of the last folio, vākyapadīye prakīrṇakaprakāśahelārājī in Devanāgarī script. On the verso side of the last folio, the original manuscript number, 3800 has been written in blue ink in Devanāgarī script.

Hardcover book, library binding. The spine reads, Helarāja's Vākyapadīprakīrṇakaprakāśa. It also gives the shelfmark, MS. Chandra Shum Shere d.247. The inside front cover gives the shelfmark and the original number.

 19th century. Benares

Bought by Maharaja Sir Chandra Shum Shere in 1909 and presented to the University of Oxford.

 Gambier-Parry, Thomas & Johnston, E. H. 1940. Index Catalogue of MSS. Chandra Shum Shere. Oxford. Li, Charles. 2018. <ref target="https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/1810/284085/limits_of_the_real.pdf">Limits of the real: a hypertext critical edition and annotated translation of Bhartṛhari's <hi rend="italic">Dravyasamuddeśa</hi>, with the commentary of Helārāja</ref>. PhD Thesis. University of Cambridge. Wujastyk, Dominik. 1984. A Handlist of the Vyākaraṇa manuscripts in the Chandra Shum Shere collection preserved in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. London.Wujastyk, Dominik. 1978. The Chandra Shum Shere Collection. 1908-1978. Oxford.

Spaces added in transcription where possible. ❈ represents a puṣpikā. ṙ represents the valapalagilaka.

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