A Digital Critical Edition of the Nyayabhasya

Nyaya（逻辑）是印度古典哲学最重要的传统之一。它的基础论文，Nyayasutra，由五个章节组成，并归因于圣人Aksapada。它基本上是最后完成的匿名编辑在下半年的第四世纪和评论后不久，由Paksilasvamin Vatsyayana。他的注释《正理经》不仅对我们理解正理哲学的早期阶段和重建《正理经》的最早形式至关重要，而且对扩展我们对古典时期其他哲学传统教义的知识也至关重要，这些传统的文献只有一小部分留存下来。尽管对印度哲学史的研究具有无可争议的重要意义，但Nyayabhasya尚未被批判性地编辑。早期DFG和FWF资助的项目集中在第1章至第2章和第5章，充分证明了需要一个方法上完善的评论版。九年DFG长期项目的目的是建立一个关键的第3章和第4章的文本，以辩证的形式处理有关形而上学，认识论，神学和救世主的中心问题。在第三章现有的41份手稿中，根据词干选择的15份核心手稿已被用于在前两个项目阶段建立其关键文本。在最后阶段，将根据总共39份现有手稿中的21份已经记录在案的文本完成第四章的关键版本。两章的文本批判和文本历史的工作是丰富的主要证人的文本的系统发育分析，并考虑由次要证人和选定的印刷版本提供的证据。除了这两章的评论印刷版之外，该项目的一个主要目标是以最先进的数字出版，从而广泛传播这两章文本的新颖评论版，并附有所有主要和次要证人的文本版本和选定的印刷版的文件，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，在项目最后阶段完成后，将允许免费访问文本，并有可能调查两章的许多现存版本的差异。Brucheion还将作为一个开放访问的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。批判性地建立文本将形成一个有充分根据的详尽的来源，为未来的研究古典Nyaya哲学和基础的一个新的语言学知情翻译Nyayabhasya。此外，该项目将为数字人文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.