著者

定方 晟

出版者

東海大学

雑誌

東海大学紀要. 文学部 (ISSN:05636760)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.74, pp.11-43, 2000

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In 1982 I published a book titled 'The Legend of King Ashoka' which is in fact a Japanese translation of the Divyavadana's portion narrating that legend. This was a translation for ordinary people, so I made a rather free translation. I try now to make a scholarly translation. This forced me to prepare a readable text, because the present text (Cowell and Neil's edition) has grammatically incorrect forms here and there. As a first trial of this new translation, I pick up the portion of Prince Kunala's story from the legend. I wish this text will become more popular among the students of Indology, and I hope my work may make some contribution to that popularization.