Relief label from Borobudur’s hidden base, no. 133 (8th c. CE)

Authors of digital edition: Arlo Griffiths (argr), Hedwi Prihatmoko (hepr).

Language: Sanskrit (san) [Kawi (kawi)].

Repository: Nusantara Epigraphy (tfc-nusantara-epigraphy).

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Edition

⟨1⟩ pūrvābhijñāśabdaśravaṇa

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ pūrvābhijñāśabdaśravaṇa SL ⬦ (pū)rvasa(ṁ)jñāśabdaśravaṇa NJK.

Translation

knowledge of previous lives

Commentary

At first, Krom (1927) proposed pūrvasaṁjñā “acknowledgement of the former” for the reading preceding śabdaśravaṇa, but Lévi (1932) proposed another reading pūrvābhijñā “knowledge of previous lives”, supplemented from the Chinese version Ye pao tch’a pie king.

Bibliography

First published by Kern (1896); republished by the same author (1917) and subsequently by Krom (1927); Lévi (1932) made a critical edition by making a comparison to the Karma-Vibhaṅga text from Nepal, Tibet, and China; this digital edition based on the 1927 publication by Krom and Lévi in his 1932 publication.

Primary

[HK] Kern, Johan Hendrik Caspar. 1917. “Over de bijschriften op het beeldhouwwerk van Boro-Budur (± 850 A. D.)” In: Verspreide geschriften, zevende deel: inscripties van den Indischen archipel, slot; de Nāgarakṛtāgama, eerste gedeelte. ’s-Gravenhage: Nijhoff, pp. 145–156. Page 150.

[NJK] Krom, Nicolaas Johannes. 1927. Barabudur: Archaeological description, vol. I. The Hague: Nijhoff. Pages 52–53.

[SL] Lévi, Sylvain. 1932. Mahā-karmavibhaṅga (La Grande classification des actes) et Karmavibhaṅgopadeśa (Discussion sur le MahāKarmavibhaṅga): textes sanscrits rapportés du Népal, édités et traduits avec les textes parallèles en sanscrit, en pali, en tibétain, en chinois et en koutchéen. Paris: E. Leroux. [URL]. Pages 88-89, Tableau Comparatif, column Bb. (Panneaux de Boro-Budur), item 131-134.

Secondary

Krom, Nicolaas Johannes. 1933. “Het Karmawibhangga op Barabuḍur.” MKAW 76, serie B, no. 8, pp. 215–283. Page 262.

de Casparis, Johannes Gijsbertus. 1975. Indonesian palaeography: A history of writing in Indonesia from the beginnings to c. A.D. 1500. Handbuch der Orientalistik 3.4.1. Leiden: Brill. Page 32.

Fontein, Jan. 1989. The law of cause and effect in ancient Java. Verhandelingen der Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, Afdeling Letterkunde nieuwe reeks, deel 140. Amsterdam: North-Holland. Pages 60–61.

Reichle, Natasha. 2009. “Unfinished Business: Clues about artistic praxis from the Hidden Foot of Borobudur.” Artibus Asiae 69 (2), pp. 335–356. [URL]. Pages 352–354, Table I, item O-133.

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