My my Arlo, the wonders of one minute with google: https://84000.co/translation/toh11
On Tue, Jan 21, 2025 at 7:43 AM Arlo Griffiths via INDOLOGY < [email protected]> wrote: > Colleagues, > > In Hemacandra's Abhidhānacintāmaṇi, we read: > > sindūraṃ nāgajaṃ nāgaṃ raktaṃ śṛṅgārabhūṣaṇam | > cīnapiṣṭaṃ haṃsapādakuruvinde tu hiṅgulaḥ || 1061 || > > According to Böhtlingk < > https://archive.org/details/hemaandrasabhid00hemagoog/page/n219/mode/2up>, > who was apparently relying on a commentary, the words up to and including > cīnapiṣṭa mean Mennig, i.e. "read lead", while the other words mean > Zinnober, i.e. cinnabar. > > > In the GRETIL e-text for "Dasasahasrika Prajnaparamita, chapter 1 and 2 > translated from the Tibetan" < > https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.281348/page/n109/mode/2up>, > §57, I find some of the terms listed by Hemacandra combined: > > buddhānāṃ bhagavatāṃ > hiṅgula-manaḥśilā-cīnapiṣṭa-vaiḍūrya-tāmrakiṭṭa-varṇair likhitānīva > lakṣaṇāni > > > 1. Can anyone tell me more about this Sanskrit text apparently not > preserved as such in Sanskrit? > 2. Is Konow's reconstruction reliable? > 3. Has the text been translated into a Western language? > > I would like to know especially > > 4. whether there is any reason to believe that in some contexts > cīnapiṣṭa and hiṅgula could refer to the same substance > 5. whether there is any other, perhaps more solid, Indian textual > evidence for the use of cinnabar in worship of Buddha images > > Thanks in advance for your learned comments. > > Arlo Griffiths > > > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > [email protected] > https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology > -- Prof. dr. J.A. Silk Leiden University Leiden University Institute for Area Studies, LIAS Herta Mohr building 2.142 Witte Singel 27A 2311 BG Leiden The Netherlands website: www.OpenPhilology.eu copies of my publications may be found at https://leidenuniv.academia.edu/JASilk
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