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Gopadatta (Sa ‘tsho byin, Sa ‘tshos byin)

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  • See under Guhyadatta. So far Michael Hahn has managed to identify 17 (of what was probably an original 34 chapters) of Gopadatta's Jātakamālā. Giuseppe Tucci once purchased, in Nepal, a partial manuscript of the Sanskrit, but this manuscript can no longer be located.
  • Lobsang Dargyay, Die Legende von den sieben Prinzessinnen (Saptakumārikāvadāna). In der poetischen Fassung von Guhyadatta/Gopadatta aufgrund der tibetischen Überzetzung herausgegeban, übersetzt und bearbeitet, Wiener Studien zur Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde, no. 2 (Vienna 1978). This exists in an independent Tibetan text, but it is the only āvadāna by Gopadatta found in Tibetan translation.
  • Michael Hahn, Der duldsame Nāgakönig. Gopadattas Nāgajātaka, Berliner Indologische Studien, vol. 8 (1995), pp. 87-135.
  • Michael Hahn, Die Einladung der Pratyekabuddhas. Gopadattas Meghajātaka, Berliner Indologische Studien, vol. 9/10 (1996), pp. 157-202.
  • Michael Hahn, Ein Anleihe Gopadattas bei Candragomin, Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde Südasiens, vol. 28 (1984), pp. 67-72.
  • Michael Hahn, Gopadatta' Jātakamālā: On the First Complete Edition of Its 16 Extant Legends, Journal of Indian and Buddhist Studies, vol. 55, no. 3 (March 2007), pp. 1043-1051.
  • Michael Hahn, Gopadatta's Kapīśvarajātaka, Journal of the Nepal Research Centre, vol. 4 (1980), pp. 133-160.
  • Michael Hahn, Haribhaṭṭa and Gopadatta: Two Authors in the Succession of Āryaśūra. On the Rediscovery of Parts of Their Jātakamālās, Studia Philological Buddhica, The Reiyukai Library (Tokyo 1997). In Somendra's preface to his father Kṣemendra's āvadāna work, he mentions Gopadatta (Hahn, HG, p. 13).
  • Michael Hahn, On the Identification of Gopadatta's Jātakas, Journal of the Nepal Research Centre, vol. 4 (1980), pp. 221-222.
  • Michael Hahn, Puṇyarāśyavadāna - Another Legend by Gopadatta? Frank-Richard Hamm Memorial Volume (October 8, 1990), ed. by H. Eimer, Indica et Tibetica series no. 21 (Bonn 1990), pp. 103-132.
  • Giuseppe Tucci, Animadversiones Indicae 8, Śaṅkaravāmin, Śivasvāmin and Gopadatta, contained in: Festschrift für Moriz Winternitz (Leipzig 1933), pp. 243-246.
  • Hahn, NBSL, pp. 49-53.
  • Sanskrit text contained in Hahn, HG, pp. 58-72. Michael Hahn is preparing an edition of the 16 extant legends.
  • Gerhard Ehlers: Das Jñānavatī-Jātaka aus der Jātakamālā des Gopadatta, dissertation (Marburg 1980).
  • KCDS, p. 46. Ācāryagopādatta.

Bibliography:

  • Ajātaśatrvavadāna.
    • Story of Ajātaśatru.
    • Bandurski, p. 77 (catalogue no. 41). The text was transcribed by Rahula Sankrityayana in Journal of the Bihar and Orissa Research Society, vol. 24 (1938), pp. 149-158.
    • Michael Hahn, Ajātaśatrvavadāna: A Gopadatta Story from Tibet, contained in: J.S. Jha, ed., K.P. Jayaswal Commemoration Volume (Patna 1981), pp. 242-276. Story of Ajātaśatru.
    • Dharmavacanasaddharmaśrāvakasatyakṛtyakathā (Chos smra ba dang dam pa'i chos nyan pa la gus par bya ba'i gtam). Tôh. no. 4172. Dergé Tanjur, vol. NGE, folios 1v.1-4r.3. Tr. by Ajitaśrībhadra and Shākya 'od. In letters section. Only 2 works of his in Tanjur.
  • Vivekakathā (Dben pa'i gtam). Tôh. no. 4171 (also, 4514). Dergé Tanjur, vol. GE, folios 193r.3-195r.7. Tr. by Dīpaṅkara (Atiśa?) and Dge ba'i blo gros. In letters section.