{"id":308,"date":"2012-05-05T06:08:01","date_gmt":"2012-05-05T04:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prajnaquest.fr\/blog\/?p=308"},"modified":"2012-07-23T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-23T00:00:00","slug":"a-critical-edition-of-the-vi%e1%b9%a3%e1%b9%87u-pura%e1%b9%87a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/prajnaquest.fr\/blog\/a-critical-edition-of-the-vi%e1%b9%a3%e1%b9%87u-pura%e1%b9%87a\/","title":{"rendered":"A Critical Edition of the Vi\u1e63\u1e47u-pur\u0101\u1e47a"},"content":{"rendered":"

As correctly pointed out by critic William Emmette Coleman, the Vishnu Purana<\/em> is the single major Eastern source for H. P. Blavatsky\u2019s 1888 book, The Secret Doctrine<\/em>. This text is therefore of great importance for the study of The Secret Doctrine<\/em> and its basis, the \u201cBook of Dzyan.\u201d In one of the major publishing events in modern India, a critical edition of the Sanskrit text of the Vi\u1e63\u1e47u-pur\u0101\u1e47a<\/em> was published in two large volumes, 1997 and 1999. A critical edition is prepared by comparing a number of different manuscripts, recording their variant readings in notes, and choosing the best readings to constitute the text of the critical edition. This is a real, large-scale critical edition, in which 43 Sanskrit manuscripts were gathered and collated, and 27 were chosen from which to prepare the Sanskrit edition. It is:<\/p>\n

The Critical Edition of the Vi\u1e63\u1e47upur\u0101\u1e47am<\/em>, edited by M. M. Pathak, 2 vols., Vadodara: Oriental Institute, 1997, 1999.<\/p>\n

This critical edition followed upon two previous critical editions of Sanskrit texts produced in India, that of the Mah\u0101bh\u0101rata<\/em>, published by the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute<\/em>, Poona, and that of the R\u0101m\u0101ya\u1e47a<\/em>, published by the Oriental Institute, Vadodara (Baroda). In fact, it was the preparation of the critical edition of the R\u0101m\u0101ya\u1e47a<\/em> by this same institute that developed the skills and expertise to undertake the critical edition of the Vi\u1e63\u1e47u-pur\u0101\u1e47a<\/em>. At present, this book is still in print, and it is not expensive. It was about $15.00 when I got my copy, although the shipping will be twice this much for these heavy volumes. It can be ordered from Indian booksellers such as BibliaImpex.com.<\/p>\n

All scholars citing translations of Sanskrit texts are expected to refer to the Sanskrit original, because translations are inexact. From 1999 onward, anyone citing the Vi\u1e63\u1e47u-pur\u0101\u1e47a<\/em> will be expected to refer to this Sanskrit critical edition. Students of Theosophy will need it for use in research on the Book of Dzyan. Our task is difficult enough in working with secret books whose originals have not yet been discovered. We do not need to give our critics any more reason to consider us uninformed and our work unreliable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As correctly pointed out by critic William Emmette Coleman, the Vishnu Purana is the single major Eastern source for H. P. Blavatsky\u2019s 1888 book, The Secret Doctrine. This text is therefore of great importance for the study of The Secret Doctrine and its basis, the \u201cBook of Dzyan.\u201d In one of the major publishing events […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noteworthy-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/prajnaquest.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/prajnaquest.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/prajnaquest.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prajnaquest.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prajnaquest.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/prajnaquest.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":360,"href":"http:\/\/prajnaquest.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions\/360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/prajnaquest.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prajnaquest.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prajnaquest.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}