A few e-manuscripts from the state library Munich available now

There is some progress at the Bavarian state library / Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (BSB) in the digitalization of items of their Sanskrit manuscripts stocks (“Cod.sanscr.” in the collection Südasiatische Handschriften, a part of their catalogue (the first volume of their catalogue [no. 222 in Janert's Annotated bibliography, no. 693 at Biswas], Aufrecht 1909, which covers the Haug collection [predominantly Vedica], is online here; the second volume, Jolly 1912, is online here).

The items appear in line of their signatures, so that there some continuous scanning of this collection might be going on these days. So far there are the numbers 328-44 (from the Jolly collection) available – check them out here. All items are downloadable in pdf format. Additions could be tracked through this RSS-feed, but unfortunately only among all the other mss scans, more detailed it isn’t getting (cf. their RSS-feed page here).

I’ve got no time to examine anything, but the scans are made quite decent. Among them available so far there is a copy of Īśvarakṛṣṇa’s Sāṃkhyākārikās (342). There are also two scans of mss of Kauṭilya’s Ārthaśāstra (334 & 35) which are obviously the ones in which Jolly and Hillebrandt discovered the text in or about 1908 (Cf. Hillebrandt’s Das älteste Lehrbuch der indischen Politik, das in zwei Handschriften der Kgl. Hof- und Staatsbibliothek in München vorliegt und sich als der lange vermisste Text des Kauṭilya’s erweist. In: Kleine Schriften, pp. 355-84).

Towards the Munich collections in general cf. BSB: Das Buch im Orient. Handschriften und kostbare Drucke aus zwei Jahrtausenden. Ausstellung 16.11.1982-5.2.1983. Wiesbaden: Reichert 1982, esp. pp. 21-29: Kaltwasser: Die orientalischen Sammlungen der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek (towards the Sanskrit collections p. 25), and this handlist.

Some events in 2010

Continuously updated

April

Handschriften und Textforschung heute – eine Konferenz zur Überlieferung der griechischen Literatur anlässlich des 70. Geburtstags von Dieter Harlfinger, Hamburg, 21.-23.04.2010

May

2nd Middle European Student Indology Conference (MESIC), Poznań, 17.-19.05.2010 [1st]

June

Modern formalisms for pre-modern Indian logic and epistemology – interdisciplinary workshop, Hamburg, 04.-06.06.2010

Lo studio dell’Asia fra antico e moderno – Giornate di studio, Rome, 10.-12.06.2010

Lecteurs et copistes dans les traditions manuscrites iraniennes, indiennes et centrasiatiques – Colloque international organisé par Mondes iranien et indien, Paris, 15.-17.06.2010

July

20th Conference of the European Association for South Asian Archaeology and Art, Wien, 04.-10.07.2010

Historiography, adaption and contemporary practice – Annual Conference of the UK Association for Buddhist Studies, Leeds, 06.-07.07.2010

3rd International Workshop on Early Tantra (IWET), Hamburg, 15.-23.07.2010 (contact) [1st workshop, 2nd]

Ramayana: reinterpretation in Asia, Singapore, 17.-18.07.2010

21. European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies (ECMSAS), Bonn, 26.-29.07.2010

August

12th Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Vancouver, 15.-21.08.2010

International Seminar on Early Buddhism, Sydney, 28.-29.8.2010

September

Indo-European verb – Arbeitstagung der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft, Los Angeles, 13.-15.09.2010

The book – Romania – Europe. Panel 3,A: Veda/Vedaṅga and Avesta between orality and writing, Bucharest, 20.-23.09.2010

Spiegelungen, Projektionen, Reflexionen – 31. Deutscher Orientalistentag (DOT), Marburg, 20.-24.09.2010

2nd International Indology Graduate Research Symposium (IIGRS), Cambridge, 23.-24.09.2010

Crossing borders in Southeast Asian archaeology – 13th International Conference of the European Association of Southeast Asian Archaeologists, Berlin, 27.09.-01.10.2010

Oktober

“One volume libraries”: composite manuscripts and multiple text manuscripts, Hamburg, 07.-10.10.2010

International Conference on Tibetan Buddhism, Atlanta, 18.-20.10.2010

November

The transmission of Sanskrit medical literature in India, Copenhagen, 12.-13.11.2010

Dezember

4th International Sanskrit Computational Linguistics Symposium (4i-SCLS), New Delhi, 10.-12.12.2010 [1st, 2nd, 3rd]

2011

Western perspectives on Buddhism – graduate workshop, Munich, 27.-29.01.2011

16th Congress of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, Jinshan (Taiwan), 20.-25.06.2011

A basic “Evaṃ mayā śrutam ….” bibliography

Some contributions towards the formulaic opening of Buddhist sutras (Sanskrit: evaṃ mayā śrutam ekasmin samaye bhagavān … viharati sma) [chronologically]:

• John Brough: “Thus have I heard …”. In: Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 13,2 (1950), 416-26 [= Collected papers. Edited by Minoru Hara and J.C. Wright. London 1996, 63-73].
• N.H. Samtani: The opening of the Buddhist sutras. In: Bhāratī – Bulletin of the College of Indology 8,2 (1964-64), 47-63.
• Yuichi Kajiyama: “Thus spoke the blessed one …”. In: L. Lancaster (Ed.): Prajñāpāramitā and related systems. Studies in honor of E. Conze. Berkeley 1977, 93-99.
• Jonathan Silk: A note on the opening of Buddhist sutras. In: Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 12,1 (1989), 158-63.
• Brian Galloway: “Thus have I heard: at one time …”. In: Indo-Iranian Journal 34,2 (1991), 87-104.
• Bernhard Kölver: Das Symbol evaṃ. In: Studien zur Indologie und Iranistik 16 (1992), 101-07.
• Mark Tatz: Brief Communication. In: Indo-Iranian Journal 36,4 (1993), 335-36 [= Indo-Iranian Journal 40,2 (1997), 117-18 (mistakenly)].
• Brian Galloway: A reply to Professor Mark Tatz. In: Indo-Iranian Journal 40,4 (1997), 367-71.
• Gregory Schopen: If you can’t remember, how to make it up. Some monastic rules for redacting canonical texts. In: P. Kieffer-Pülz (Ed.): Bauddhavidyāsudhākaraḥ. Studies in honour of Heinz Bechert on the occasion of his 65th birthday. Swisttal-Odendorf 1997, 571-82 [= Buddhist monks and business matters. Still more papers on monastic Buddhism in India. Honolulu 2004, 395-408].
• Fernando Tola, Carmen Dragonetti: Ekam samayam. In: Indo-Iranian Journal 42,1 (1999), 53-55.
• Konrad Klaus: Zu der formelhaften Einleitung der buddhistischen Sūtras. In: K. Klaus, J.-U. Hartmann (Ed.): Indica et Tibetica. Festschrift für Michael Hahn. Wien 2007, 309-22.

Additions welcome!