Dramatic Fragments · Chapter 1

SHT 16 fragment 1 (IDP SHT 16/1)
The original is deposited in Berlin, Museum für Asiatische Kunst (MIK III 26); facsimile in Lüders 1911
to the same folio belongs SHT 16/2; cf. Lüders 1911, p. 17
r1 /// + + + + y. bhavanivarttakeṣu kleśeṣu na kiñcid asti pprahātavyaṃ yasya nityam anitya[ṃ] v[ā] na k[i]ñc[i]d ast[i] boddhavya[ṃ] ─ t(a)m(o) y(e)n(a) kṣ(i)pt(aṃ) .. .. .. .. [m](a)[y]ūkh(ai)r. + .. [r](a)j(o) [y](a)sy(a) [dh]v(a)[s]t(aṃ)
2 /// + + yenāv⟨ā⟩ptam paramam amṛtan durllabham ṛtaṃ manobuddhis tasmiṃnn aham abhirame śāntiparame ─ dhṛti ─ asti asti tat matprabhāvaparigṛhītam puruṣasa[ṃ]jñakan tejaḥ prādurbhūta[ṃ] ─
3 /// (para)s[p]arāyattam i[da]n dvandam iti _ yatra ⟨⟨hi⟩⟩ buddhir avatiṣṭhate tatra dhṛtiḥ sthāghaṃ @read: sthānaṃ@@ labhate _ yatra ca dhṛtir ādhīyate tatra buddhir vistīryyate ─ kīrt[t]iḥ ─ evaṃ gate yuvābhyām āya
4 (ttābhyām) /// (i)[d]ānī(ṅ) k. .. .. .. .. ─ buddhiḥ ─ tathā tat* api ca ─ nityaṃ sa supta [i]va yasya na buddhir asti _ nityaṃ sa matta iva yo dhṛtiviprahīṇa(ḥ) + + + + + + sa ca ya[s]y(a) n(a) k(ī)
v1 (rttir asti) /// tiṣ[ṭh]ati ya[s]ya kīrt(t)⟨i⟩ḥ ─ kīrtti ─ kva punar idānīṃ sa puruṣavigraho dharmaḥ saṃprati viharati ─ buddhiḥ ─ svādhīnāyām ṛddhau kva punar na viha(rati) + + (pakṣī)va vyomni yāti vra
2 (jati) /// + + (niḥ)sa[ṅ]g(a)[s] t(o)[y](ava)d gām praviśati bahudhā mūrttiṃ vibha[jati] khe varṣaty ambudhārāṃ jvalati ca yugapat sandhy⟨ā⟩mbuda iva svacchandāt parvva .. .. + + [v]rajati ca vi[dhiv](a)d dh(ar)mm(a)ñ c(a) [ca]
3 (rati) /// + + [ṅ] gocaraḥ ─ dhṛtiḥ ─ tena hi sarvvā yeva tāvad enaṃ vāsavṛkṣīkurmaḥ eṣa hi sa maharṣir magadhapurasyopavane samprati ─ sorṇṇabhr[u]s tanumṛdujālapāṇipā[da](ḥ)
4 /// + + + + vaśyātmā viharati nispṛhaḥ kṛtār[th]o j[ñ]ānasya ppraśamarasasya caiva pūrṇṇa[ḥ] ─ tataḥ praviśati prabhāmaṇḍalena dīptena .. r. b[bh].ḥ [parama] .. .o .. .. veṣo bhaga(vā)ṃ ⟨⟨śa[rmā]⟩⟩ +
SHT 16 fragment 2 (IDP SHT 16/2)
to the same folio belongs SHT 16/1; cf. Lüders 1911 p. 17
Lüders did not read Aa and B2; therefore his A1 is here Ab
Aa /// + + + + + .. .. ///
b /// .. [k]āraṇam ī[ra] + ///
B1 /// .. + [a]gaṇi[y]. + /