Guest guest Posted January 30, 2003 Report Share Posted January 30, 2003 >Dear list members, > >Both the Library of Congress (LC control no. 45050622 ) and the Harvard >University On-line catalogue (Hollis no. 003448434) list Somananda as the >"supposed author" of the paratriMzikA (paratrizikA). > >Is there some scholarly opinion that attributes the text of the paratriMzikA >and not just a commentary (lost?) of it to Somananda? > >Many thanks, >Harry The obviously incorrect statement found in some catalogues, like those you mentioned, comes from a misunderstanding of one of the concluding verses in Abhinava's PTV: ... srisomanandamatam vimrsya maya nibaddham idam (sorry, I don't like the usual encodings; after all, all the members of this list are supposed to mentally restore the missing diacritical marks...). Somananda did write a commentary on the PT (now lost), which was carefully taken into account by Abhinava. Regards, Raffaele Torella -- Prof. Raffaele Torella Chair of Sanskrit Dipartimento di Studi Orientali Universita di Roma 'La Sapienza' fax +39 06 4451209 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 5, 2003 Report Share Posted March 5, 2003 Dear Raffaele, Could you give me references in print that I can use to get this error in the author corrected by our cataloging staff? Thanks, Allen Allen W. Thrasher, Ph.D. Senior Reference Librarian Southern Asia Section Asian Division Library of Congress Jefferson Building 150 101 Independence Ave., S.E. Washington, DC 20540-4810 tel. 202-707-3732 fax 202-707-1724 athr The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the Library of Congress. >>> torella 01/30/03 12:32PM >>> >Dear list members, > >Both the Library of Congress (LC control no. 45050622 ) and the Harvard >University On-line catalogue (Hollis no. 003448434) list Somananda as the >"supposed author" of the paratriMzikA (paratrizikA). > >Is there some scholarly opinion that attributes the text of the paratriMzikA >and not just a commentary (lost?) of it to Somananda? > >Many thanks, >Harry The obviously incorrect statement found in some catalogues, like those you mentioned, comes from a misunderstanding of one of the concluding verses in Abhinava's PTV: ... srisomanandamatam vimrsya maya nibaddham idam (sorry, I don't like the usual encodings; after all, all the members of this list are supposed to mentally restore the missing diacritical marks...). Somananda did write a commentary on the PT (now lost), which was carefully taken into account by Abhinava. Regards, Raffaele Torella -- Prof. Raffaele Torella Chair of Sanskrit Dipartimento di Studi Orientali Universita di Roma 'La Sapienza' fax +39 06 4451209 indology Your use of is subject to Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 5, 2003 Report Share Posted March 5, 2003 >Dear Raffaele, > >Could you give me references in print that I can use to get this error >in the author corrected by our cataloging staff? > >Thanks, > >Allen Dear Allen, as far as I can guess, there are two main sources of errors in the Library of Congress and Harvard's cataloguing Somananda-related works. In 1918 KSTS edition of Abhiinavagupta's Paratrimsikavivarana, the Editor emphasizes in the Introduction that Abhinava is strictly following the lost commentary by Somananda. On p.13 he even says (greatly exaggerating; in fact the PTV is a very personal and fascinanting work of Abhinavagupta) that Somananda "may, in all justice, be called the original commentator of Paratrimsika". Hence the mistake of the cataloguing staff (there is no need to assume, as I did in my earlier posting, that they were misled by reading the the concluding verse 19, p.282, in the original Sanskrit). Another booklet published in the same series has a very misleading title (I am quoting by memory, not having the book at hand now): Paratrimsika-tatparyadipika and Shaktavijnana by Somananda. This has made the cataloguing staff speak of a commentary on the PT (the above mentioned Paratrimsika-tatparyadipika) by Somananda. In fact the Paratrimsika-tatparyadipika is a late, but not devoid of interest, anonymous commentary, while the Shaktavijnana is a short work ascribed to *one* Somananda (to my mind, certainly not the famous Sivadrsti's author). Hence the (more justified) mistake of the cataloguing staff. To sum up: the Paratrimsikavivarana is of course by Abhinavagupta; Somananda's commentary on the Paratrimsika is lost; the author of Paratrimsika-tatparyadipika is unknown (I can add that he was very conversant with Abhinavagupta's short commentary, the so-called Laghuvrtti); the Shaktavijnana is by one Somananda (not our Somananda). Hope this may help. Sincerely, Raffaele Torella -- Prof. Raffaele Torella Chair of Sanskrit Dipartimento di Studi Orientali Universita di Roma 'La Sapienza' fax +39 06 4451209 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 6, 2003 Report Share Posted March 6, 2003 Dear Raffaele, Thanks a lot. I'll see if I can get it corrected. Allen Allen W. Thrasher, Ph.D. Senior Reference Librarian Southern Asia Section Asian Division Library of Congress Jefferson Building 150 101 Independence Ave., S.E. Washington, DC 20540-4810 tel. 202-707-3732 fax 202-707-1724 athr The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the Library of Congress. >>> torella 03/05/03 06:59PM >>> >Dear Raffaele, > >Could you give me references in print that I can use to get this error >in the author corrected by our cataloging staff? > >Thanks, > >Allen Dear Allen, as far as I can guess, there are two main sources of errors in the Library of Congress and Harvard's cataloguing Somananda-related works. In 1918 KSTS edition of Abhiinavagupta's Paratrimsikavivarana, the Editor emphasizes in the Introduction that Abhinava is strictly following the lost commentary by Somananda. On p.13 he even says (greatly exaggerating; in fact the PTV is a very personal and fascinanting work of Abhinavagupta) that Somananda "may, in all justice, be called the original commentator of Paratrimsika". Hence the mistake of the cataloguing staff (there is no need to assume, as I did in my earlier posting, that they were misled by reading the the concluding verse 19, p.282, in the original Sanskrit). Another booklet published in the same series has a very misleading title (I am quoting by memory, not having the book at hand now): Paratrimsika-tatparyadipika and Shaktavijnana by Somananda. This has made the cataloguing staff speak of a commentary on the PT (the above mentioned Paratrimsika-tatparyadipika) by Somananda. In fact the Paratrimsika-tatparyadipika is a late, but not devoid of interest, anonymous commentary, while the Shaktavijnana is a short work ascribed to *one* Somananda (to my mind, certainly not the famous Sivadrsti's author). Hence the (more justified) mistake of the cataloguing staff. To sum up: the Paratrimsikavivarana is of course by Abhinavagupta; Somananda's commentary on the Paratrimsika is lost; the author of Paratrimsika-tatparyadipika is unknown (I can add that he was very conversant with Abhinavagupta's short commentary, the so-called Laghuvrtti); the Shaktavijnana is by one Somananda (not our Somananda). Hope this may help. Sincerely, Raffaele Torella -- Prof. Raffaele Torella Chair of Sanskrit Dipartimento di Studi Orientali Universita di Roma 'La Sapienza' fax +39 06 4451209 indology Your use of is subject to Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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