Berlin Turfan Koleksiyonu’ndan Eski Uygurca Sitātapatrādhāraṇī’nin İki Fragmanı

Abstract

The Sitātapatrādhāraṇī, considered as a Tantric text about the Goddess Sitātapatrā and her dhāraṇī, is appraised as one of the important texts in the Old Uyghur translation literature. Sitātapatrā, known as the ‘Goddess with the White Parasol’, is believed to protect against disasters, black magic, and the Devil by means of her dhāraṇī either read or worn by believers. She is also called ‘the great overture’, the one ‘who is invincible by others’ or ‘who was born from the uṣṇīṣa of the tathāgata’. This paper deals with the edition of some ‘individually pre-identified’ Old Uyghur Sitātapatrādhāraṇī fragments from the Turfan collection at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. It also aims to join the two fragments known as different fragments (U 4246 (T II T 669) and U 4717 (O.F.)) together into a single fragment and contribute to the original sequence and location of the fragments within the text. Moreover, it compares the Old Uyghur version to the other Sitātapatrādhāraṇī versions of the text in other languages that have at least partly parallel semantic sequence and are complementary. Keywords: Buddhism, Tantric texts, Sitātapatrādhāraṇī, Old Uyghur, fragments.