A Digital Critical Edition of the Nyayabhasya

《逻辑》是印度古典哲学最重要的传统之一。它的基础性论文《尼亚雅苏德》由五章组成，归因于圣人阿克萨帕达。它基本上是由匿名的编辑人员在第四世纪下半叶完成的，并在不久之后被Paksilasvamin Vatsyayana评论。他的评论，《正宗》，不仅对于我们理解正宗哲学的早期阶段和重建正统哲学的最早形式至关重要，而且对于扩大我们对古典时期其他哲学传统的教义的认识也是至关重要的，这些传统的文献只有一小部分幸存下来。尽管这对印度哲学史的研究具有无可争辩的意义，但《印度哲学史》尚未经过批判性编辑。早期DFG和FWF资助的专注于第1至2章和第5章的项目充分证明了本评论需要一个经过方法改进的批判性版本。DFG长期项目旨在建立第3章和第4章的批判性文本，这两章以辩证的形式处理与形而上学、认识论、神学和经验论有关的中心问题。在可供第三章使用的41份手稿中，有15份核心手稿已在前两个项目阶段用来确定其关键文本。在最后阶段，第四章的关键版本将在总共39份手稿中已有文件记录的21份文本的基础上完成。关于这两章的文本批评和文本历史工作丰富了对主要证人文本的系统发生分析，以及对次要证人和选定印刷版本提供的证据的审议。除了这两个章节的印刷关键版外，该项目的一个主要目标是最先进的数字出版，从而广泛传播其文本的新的关键版本，并附有所有主要和次要证人的文本版本和选定的印刷版本的文件，以及详细的手稿说明。它将在为该项目开发的创新网络平台Brucheion上发布，在该项目的最后阶段完成后，将允许自由查阅文本，并有可能调查这两个章节的许多现有版本的差异。Brucheion还将作为一个开放访问、多用户、基于网络的虚拟研究环境，用于基于大量手稿的关键工作。批判性的文本将形成一个有充分根据的，详尽的资料，为未来的研究，古典涅槃哲学和基础，一个新的翻译的哲学知识的尼亚巴斯亚。此外，该项目将为将数字人文科学和数字文献学引入该学科做出重大贡献。

The Nyaya (“logic”) is one of the most important traditions of classical Indian philosophy. Its foundational treatise, the Nyayasutra, consists of five chapters and is ascribed to sage Aksapada. It was basically finalized by anonymous redactors in the second half of the fourth century and was commented upon shortly afterwards by Paksilasvamin Vatsyayana. His commentary, the Nyayabhasya, is of crucial importance not only for our understanding of the early phase of Nyaya philosophy and for reconstructing the earliest form of the Nyayasutra, but also for expanding our knowledge of the teachings of other philosophical traditions of the classical period, of whose literature only a fraction has survived. In spite of this undisputed significance for the study of the history of Indian philosophy, the Nyayabhasya has not yet been critically edited. The need for a methodologically refined critical edition of this commentary has been amply demonstrated by earlier DFG and FWF-funded projects focused on chapters 1 to 2 and 5. The nine-year DFG long-term project aims to establish a critical text of chapters 3 and 4 which deal in dialectical form with central issues relating to metaphysics, epistemology, theology and soteriology. Out of 41 manuscripts available for chapter three, 15 core manuscripts selected on stemmatic grounds have been used to establish its critical text in the first two project phases. In the final phase, the critical edition of chapter four will be achieved on the basis of the already documented text of 21 among a total of 39 available manuscripts. The text-critical and text-historical work on the two chapters is enriched by phylogenetic analyses of the texts of the primary witnesses, and the consideration of the evidence provided by secondary witnesses and selected printed editions. In addition to the printed critical edition of the two chapters, a major aim of the project is the state-of-the-art digital publication, and thereby wide dissemination, of a novel critical edition of their text, accompanied by a documentation of the text versions of all primary and secondary witnesses and the selected printed editions, as well as detailed manuscript descriptions. It will be published on the innovative web platform Brucheion which is being developed for the project and will, after its completion in the project’s final phase, allow free access to the texts and the possibility of investigating the variance of the many extant versions of the two chapters. Brucheion will also function as an open-access multi-user web-based Virtual Research Environment for critical work based on a large number of manuscripts. The critically established text will form a well-founded exhaustive source for future studies on classical Nyaya philosophy and the basis of a new philologically informed translation of the Nyayabhasya. Moreover, the project will make a substantial contribution to the introduction of Digital Humanities and Digital Philology into the discipline.