The Bhikṣuṇī Maṇimēkhalai

29
Supplement 1
(By Prof. H. Jacobi in his article for the Hultzsch Jubilee number of
the Zeitschrift für Indologie und Iranistik.)
[xxxi] I had induced Professor Krishnaswami Aiyangar some years
ago to undertake the full and correct translation of those portions of
the Maṇimēkhalai which dealt with Indian philosophical systems, so
that it may serve as a basis to fix the age of that work with greater
probability. As I heard nothing further about this project it seemed to
me that its execution was postponed to an indefinite future.
Thereupon I thought that I ought not to delay the publication of what
I had got up about the age of this work from out of the translation by
Kanakasabhai. The result is the above contribution to the Jubilee
number intended for Hultzsch. 2
When my contribution was ready for the press, Professor
Krishnaswami Aiyangar wrote to me that he had translated the
chapters of the Maṇimēkhalai relating to the philosophy and on April
10, 1926, I received a type-written copy of his translation of the
chapters 27 and 29. In the light of these more correct reproduction of
the original many of the obscurities of Kanakasabhai’s translation
were cleared up, to mention which in detail here would be to digress.
Nevertheless I may here set down briefly the most important of the
1 I am obliged to Mr. R. Gopalan, M.A., Sub-Librarian, Connemara Public
Library and Mr. S. T. Krishnamacharyar, B.A., B.L., High Court Vakil, for
the translation of this Supplement.
2 ‘Zeitschrift für lndologie und Iranistik.’: Band 5 Hft 3 of the Deutsch
Morgalandissche Gesselleschaft (Leipzig).