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1.Objectivesandapproach
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Dharmabhadra’scommentaryontheclassicalTibetangrammar,Si
tuZhallung(henceforthZHAL),isusedasthebasisofmyworkbe-
causeofitspopularityamongTibetanandWesternscholars.Onecan
findacompletetranslationandtransliterationofthecommentaryon
SumcupaandRtagskyi!jugpafromZHALinmywork.Ihaveused
fourdifferentversionsofZHAL.Theyare:
a.ZhallungpublishedbytheTibetanCulturalPrintingPress,
Dharamsala,1986;
b.ZhallungfromthecollectedworksofDngulchuDharmabhadra,
reproducedfromamanuscript5byChampaOser,Delhi,1973;
c.ZhallungeditedbyInabaSh¯juinChibetto-gokotenbunp¯gaku,
z¯hokan.H¯z¯kan,Kyoto1986(1sted.1954);
d.ZhallungeditedbySaratChandraDasinAnIntroductiontothe
GrammaroftheTibetanLanguage,MotilalBanarsidass,1983(1sted.
1915).
BasingmyselfontheZHAL,publishedbytheTibetanCultural
PrintingPress,Icompareditwiththreeotherversions.Fromamongfour
differentversionsoftheTibetantext,thefirsttwoareclosetotheone
publishedbytheTibetanCulturalPrintingPress.ThetextofZhallung
publishedbyDasisinmanyplacesblurred,therearemanymissingor
extrawordsbycomparisonwithothercommentaries.Comparative
notesaregiveninthefootnotestothetransliterationbelow(thecom-
paredtextsareindicatedbyabbreviations).
WhiletranslatingZHAL,Ihavecompareditsexplanationswith
ninedifferentgrammarcommentaries,ancientandmodern.Theyareas
follows:
1.SmrasgomtshonchabyPaö¶itaSm¨tijfianak´rti(earlyeleventh
century)6,
2.Mkhaspa!ikhargyan7and
5Inmyviewthisprintresemblesareproductionofablockprintratherthanareproduc-
tionfromamanuscript.
6Cf.Verhagen1994:47n.4;141.
7Moreabouttheauthorofthistextwillbesaidlaterintheappendix,includingthe
translationofMkhaspa!ikhargyan.
