A Newly Available Sanskrit Manuscript of the Abhidharmadīpa: Verses 18–32

Abstract

The present paper provides the Sanskrit text of verses 18–32 of the Abhidharmadīpa extracted from the newly available folios of the Abhidharmadīpavṛtti manuscript. In the published edition of the Abhidharmadīpavṛtti edited by Jaini, the opening portion of the text is incomplete: only the first verse (in fol. 1) had been available, while fols. 2–30 remained unavailable. However, the lacking folia have recently become accessible through microfilms preserved at the CTRC. The newly available folia are as follows: Fols. 2–30, 46, 67–82, 84–89, 118–125, 138, 147, 151 (Fol. 17 appears twice, and fol. 80 already appeared in the folios used by Jaini). The following folios have been available and edited by Jaini: fols. 1, 31–39, 41–45, 47, 49–51, 80(!), 91–117, 126, 128, 130, 134–137, 139, 141–144, 146, 148–150; and the following folia are yet to be found: Fols. 40, 48, 52–66, 83, 90, 127, 129, 131–133, 140, 145, 152.

In my previous paper, I presented the Sanskrit text of verses 1–17, and I present here verses 18–32, in which verses 18–20 deal with the eight core topics of the text (i.e. the five skandhas and the three asaṃskṛta-dharmas), verse 21 summarizes the three pramāṇa (i.e. pratyakṣa, anumāna, and āgama) that establish the existence of the eight core topics, and verses 22–23, which discuss the three pramāṇas with a detailed argument about āgama.