Anonymus Casmiriensis (10“’ century): „Path to Liberation“ (Mokṣopāya) in 30.000 couplets. Complete historico-critical Edition. Application for printing subsidies for Part 1 of the 6 Book (Nirvāṇaprakaraṇa) of the Mokṣopāya, Chapters 1-119: Edition and German Translation

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Walter Slaje
• Subject Area: Asian Studies
• Term: from 2017 to 2019
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 394599693

In conformity with the title of the project aiming at a “complete edition” from the outset, and inaccordance with its application, the research data obtained by the above-mentioned long-termproject are supposed to be published in printing.Books 1-5 of the Mokṣopāya, which falls into 6 books, have already been published accordingly.Edition:Volumes 1-3 (2011), Vol. 4 (2012). Vol. 5 (2013).Translation:Volumes 1-2 (2014), Vol. 4 (2013), Vol. 5 (2015).Running commentary:Vol. 4(2016)The previous project sections have yielded 8 published volumes with 2778 pages in total. Six volumes (a set of 3 vols. for the edition, another for the translation) are still awaiting their publication, the first two volumes of which are the subject of the present application. Overall, the completed edition will comprise 14 volumes.The edited text and its German translation of the sixth and final book („Nirväna“) in process had to be divided into three volumes each of equal size of approximately 5,000 stanzas each. Two of these volumes (text and translation) are now ready for printing. With its 5,096 couplets, itrepresents one third of the complete Nirvāṇaprakaraṇa.The critical edition contains 544 pages.The German translation contains 872 pages.The overall demand of printing subsidies for a total of 1,416 pages with a colored frontispiece for each volume (from a Persian manuscript containing a translation of the Mokṣopāya) in the analogy of the volumes already published.The first 8 volumes of the Mokṣopāya's complete edition were published in a series precisely founded for this project by Harrassowitz Publishers in cooperation with the Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz. A copy of the contract as signed by the two parties in 2007 is attached. This is why no further offers for comparison were collected.Also enclosed is the permission of the Chester Beatty Library (Dublin) to reproduce the frontispieces from their collection.

• DFG Programme: Publication Grants