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- Title: Two Gandhari Manuscripts of the Song of Lake Anavatapta (Anavatapta-Gatha): British Library Kharosthi Fragment 1 and Senior Scroll 14 (Book Review)
- Author : The Journal of the American Oriental Society
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
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Two Gandhari Manuscripts of the Song of Lake Anavatapta (Anavatapta-gatha): British Library Kharosthi Fragment 1 and Senior Scroll 14. By RICHARD SALOMON with contributions by ANDREW GLASS. Gandharan Buddhist Texts, vol. 5. Seattle: UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS, 2008. Pp. xxv + 444, 22 plates, 23 figs. With the exception of the Khotan (ex Gandhari) Dharmapada the Anavataptagatha is the longest surviving literary text in Gandhari (p. 132). The stories of the previous lives of different pupils of the Buddha and the Buddha himself, told during a meeting of five hundred monks with the Buddha at Lake Anavatapta, enjoyed a great popularity once, most likely originally as an independent text (p. 47), as parallel versions preserved in the Pali Apadana (partly also Nettippakarana), the Bhaisajyavastu of line Mulasarvastivada Vinaya, Turfan manuscripts, and translations into Tibetan and Chinese amply demonstrate (p. xviii). The name of the lake is derived in the Mulasarvastivadavinaya from a sacrifice during which rice was cooked in this lake that slowly cooled off. Therefore it is 'not heated' (p. 6). A different explanation is known to the Theravada tradition. Here, the rays of neither sun nor moon reach the lake, when they stand high in the sky. Consequently, the lake is never heated. This is said, e.g., in the commentaries to the Anguttaranikaya or the Suttanipata, cf. Mp IV 108, 19-22 quoted Sn 438,7-9.