Vākyapadīyaprameyasaṃgraha
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Rau 1981
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The base text Vākyakāṇḍa comprises 493 kārikās. Of these, the Prameyasaṃgraha discusses 258 and leaves 235 untreated, according to Rau's marginal annotations The 258 kārikās discussed are 3, 5, 10, 12, 19–22, 30–31, 64–65, 69, 72–80, 87–88, 92, 95–101, 105, 108, 120–123, 154–162, 164–172, 174–176, 178–183, 185–190, 192–195, 197–202, 204, 216–217, 219–227, 229–230, 233, 238–258, 267, 273–281, 283–284, 298, 300, 302–308, 311–316, 318–321, 323–328, 334–335, 346–349, 351, 354–357, 359–364, 367, 369–376, 378–385, 388–397, 399–402, 404, 406, 409–434, 436, 438–440, 442–447, 449–450, 452, and 454–468. This coverage proceeds largely in linear order through the chapter, with only a few deviations from strict sequentiality. Contributor C. Li created headings for groups of kārikās discussed, which are retained here to provide the table of contents.
The Vākyapadīya-Prameyasaṃgraha is an anonymous scholastic work, probably composed in the early twelfth century, that builds upon Bhartṛhari's Vākyapadīya — specifically about half the second chapter of the three chapters, called the Vākyakāṇḍa — to create a compact doctrinal compendium. It survives in a single incomplete manuscript discovered in Benares in 1969, with the author's name lost along with the colophon.
Personal collection of Charles Li.
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I (T. Neill) produced this HANSEL edition by first running a PDF of the 1981 edition through both Google Cloud Vision OCR (via Skrutable) and Gemini 2.0 Flash (via Dharmamitra). These two OCR outputs were then automatically harmonized using Gemini 2.5 Flash (via direct API and using a custom prompt). Finally, the harmonized OCR output was contrasted against the previous version by C. Li using Meld, and differences were reconciled individually with reference to the PDF. Additional structural markup into sections was prepared by C. Li on the basis of Rau's marginal annotations of VP kārikās. Brackets marking partly legible or uncertain readings were kept in an intermediate file but removed in the project edition, leaving only the readings and Rau’s ellipses. Rau’s empty brackets ([]) for missing material, whose extent he described in footnotes, were replaced with "...". The text still needs a final proofread.
Prose with quoted verse
Roman-like (ity evam, not ityevam)
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