Apologies: [Y-Indology] Prakrit verses in the Tantrasara

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Dear Colleagues, I am sorry to have written on AG's verses -- Prof.

Witzel had already done it, and, as usual, so well.

I hit the bottom too early without reading all my mails.

 

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Dr. Enrica Garzilli

University of Macerata, Italy

Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Tantric Studies

Journ. of S. Asia Women Studies http://www.asiatica.org

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Michael Witzel wrote:

>

> H. Spier asked:

>

> >At the end of each chapter of the K.S.T.S. edition of Abhinavagupta's

> >Tantrasara there is a verse in Prakrit followed by a Sanskrit gloss in the

> >notes at the bottom of the page. Can any of the members give me any

> >information about these verses

>

> Over the past few years, E.Garzilli and I have been working, on and off, on

> these verses.

> They are not in Pkt., as is sometimes maintained, but in Apabhramsa.

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> Being part of a general N.Indian Koine, the exact source of the language

> used by Abhinavagupta is not immediately identifiable; it contains western

>