A Digital Critical Edition of the Nyayabhasya

Nyaya（“逻辑”）是印度古典哲学中最重要的传统之一。它的基础论述，新经，由五章组成，被认为是圣人阿克萨帕达。它基本上是在四世纪下半叶由匿名编辑完成的，不久之后Paksilasvamin Vatsyayana对它进行了评论。他的注释《新雅跋》（Nyayabhasya）不仅对我们理解新雅哲学的早期阶段和重建《新雅经》的早期形式至关重要，而且对扩大我们对古典时期其他哲学传统教义的认识也至关重要，这些传统的文学作品只有一小部分幸存下来。尽管对印度哲学史的研究具有无可争议的意义，但《新哲学》尚未被批判性地编辑过。早期DFG和fwf资助的以第1章至第2章和第5章为重点的项目充分证明，需要在方法上对这一评论进行精细化的批评。为期九年的DFG长期项目旨在建立第3章和第4章的关键文本，以辩证的形式处理与形而上学，认识论，神学和救赎论有关的中心问题。在第三章可获得的41份手稿中，根据系统的理由选择的15份核心手稿已用于在前两个项目阶段建立其关键文本。在最后阶段，第四章的批判版将根据现有的总共39份手稿中已经记录的21份文本完成。通过对主要证人文本的系统发育分析，以及对次要证人提供的证据和选定的印刷版本的考虑，这两章的文本批判和文本历史工作得到了丰富。除了这两章的印刷评论版外，该项目的一个主要目标是最先进的数字出版物，从而广泛传播其文本的小说评论版，并附有所有主要和次要证人的文本版本的文件和选定的印刷版本，以及详细的手稿说明。它将在创新的网络平台Brucheion上发布，该平台正在为该项目开发，在项目的最后阶段完成后，将允许免费访问文本，并有可能调查这两个章节的许多现存版本的差异。Brucheion还将作为基于大量手稿的关键工作的开放式多用户网络虚拟研究环境。批判性建立的文本将形成一个有充分根据的详尽来源，为未来古典尼亚雅哲学的研究和一个新的语言学基础的基础上了解尼亚雅巴夏的翻译。此外，该项目将为将数字人文和数字文献学引入该学科做出实质性贡献。

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.