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Sāratamā: A Pañjikā on the Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra by Ācārya Ratnākaraśānti
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Sāratamā: A Pañjikā on the Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra by Ācārya Ratnākaraśānti, edited by Padmanabh S. Jaini, is a Sanskrit critical edition of Ratnākaraśānti's pañjikā-commentary on the Aṣṭasāhasrikāprajñāpāramitāsūtra, published as No. XVIII in the Tibetan Sanskrit Works Series by the Kashi Prasad Jayaswal Research Institute, Patna, in 1979, under the patronage of the Government of the State of Bihar, with Dr. J. S. Jha serving as General Editor. At the time of publication, Jaini (1923–2021) was Professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, where he had cofounded the Group in Buddhist Studies after prior appointments at SOAS, University of London, and the University of Michigan. A leading scholar of both Buddhist and Jain studies, Jaini is especially known in Buddhist Studies for his work on Abhidharma and for producing critical editions of several previously unpublished Sanskrit and Pāli Buddhist texts, including the Abhidharmadīpa, the Sāratamā, and the Paññāsa-Jātaka (a collection of apocryphal jātakas, published in four volumes with translation).
Citation
Jaini, Padmanabh S., ed. Sāratamā: A Pañjikā on the Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra by Ācārya Ratnākaraśānti. Tibetan Sanskrit Works Series No. XVIII. Patna: Kashi Prasad Jayaswal Research Institute, 1979.
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The Āryāṣṭasāhasrikāprajñāpāramitāpañjikāsārottamā (Skt.; also known in its Sanskrit critical edition as Sāratamā; Tib. 'Phags pa shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa brgyad stong pa'i dka' 'grel snying po mchog) is a pañjikā-commentary on the Aṣṭasāhasrikāprajñāpāramitāsūtra by Ācārya Ratnākaraśānti (late 10th–mid-11th century), the eastern-gate scholar (dvāra-paṇḍita) of Vikramaśīla Monastery, who bore the epithet kalikālasarvajña ("the Omniscient One of the Degenerate Age") and is counted among the eighty-four mahāsiddhas. Its Tibetan translation, credited to Subhūtiśānti and Śākya blo gros, is preserved in the Derge Tengyur (D 3803) and the Peking Tengyur (P 5200, vol. 92). A Sanskrit critical edition, titled Sāratamā, was published as Sāratamā: A Pañjikā on the Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra by Ācārya Ratnākaraśānti, edited by Padmanabh S. Jaini, in the Tibetan Sanskrit Works Series (no. XVIII), by the Kashi Prasad Jayaswal Research Institute, Patna, in 1979.
