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Santideva’s Bodhicaryavatara

By Nalini Nath Das Gupta

Vol. 25 · No. 2June - 1949pp. 148English

Summary

Sujit Kumar Mukhopadhyaya’s Bengali translation of Santideva’s Bodhicaryavatara is reviewed here. The translation covers the first eight chapters of the Buddhist text and is based on Prajnakaramati’s commentary. It includes footnotes, a glossary and plans to publish the philosophical final chapters separately. The reviewer notes that this translation fills a gap since earlier editions and will make Santideva’s ethical and contemplative teachings accessible to Bengali readers.

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The review welcomes Mukhopadhyaya’s translation of the Bodhicaryavatara for its use of Prajnakaramati’s commentary, inclusion of footnotes and glossary, and intention to complete the work’s philosophical chapters, thereby bringing Santideva’s teachings to Bengali audiences.

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  • “Both Louis de la Vallée Poussin’s edition of Sintideva’s Bodhicarya- vatira published by the Asiatic Society of Bengal, and the Bengali rendering of દોટ same by Swami Hartharananda Aranya under the patronage of the late Gopaldas Chaudhuri, the munificent zemindar of Sherpur, have long been out of market, and long has the want of this work been लिए by students of Buddhism in this country.”
  • “The present volume contains the translation of the first eight of the ten chapters of the work.”
  • “Of this compendium of { Mahiyiana teachings, the ninth and tenth chapters relate to philosophy, and the translator reserves the rendering and elucidation of these two chapters for a separate volume,”

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  1. SANTIDEVER BODHICARYAVATARA (the Bodhicaryavatara of Sintideva, done into Bengali), by Dada Sujit Kumar Mukhopadhyaya
  2. Louis de la Vallée Poussin’s edition of Sintideva’s Bodhicarya-vatira
  3. MAHABHARATER SAMAJA (Society in the Mahabharata, in Bengali), by 511 Sukhamaya Bhattacharyya, Sastri, Saptatirtha
  4. Bodhicarya-vatira
  5. Bodhicaryavatara

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Vol. 25 · No. 2
81–86New Light on the Epoch of the Kalacuri EraV. V. Mirashi87–94The Vinaya Texts in ChineseAnil Chandra Banerjee95–101Three more Imitations of the GitagovindaV. W. Karambelkar102–109Surgery and Medicine in the Days of GautamaYashpal110–122AryavartaSashi Bhusan Chaudhuri123–131On the Interpretation of Some Passages of Harsa‑caritaRajendra Chandra Hazra132–134Date of Abhinanda, author of the RimacaritaDineshchandra Sircar135–138A Note on Turuska‑dandaRoma Niyogi138–143A Note on the Tivarkhed Plates of NannarajaV. V. Mirashi144Highways and Byways of Literary Criticism in SanskritMano Mohan Ghosh144The Religious Basis of the Forms of Indian Society, Indian Culture and English Influence, East & WestMano Mohan Ghosh145Kenopanisad‑BhasyaMano Mohan Ghosh145Akbarsahi‑Srngaradarapana of PadmasundaraMano Mohan Ghosh146–147JatibhedaNalini Nath Das Gupta147Mimamsa DarsanaNalini Nath Das Gupta148Santideva’s BodhicaryavataraNalini Nath Das GuptaCurrent article148–149Mahabharater SamajaNalini Nath Das Gupta150–152Select Contents of Oriental Journals

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