A 119-18 to A 120-1 (Aṣṭamīvratapurāṇa)
Manuscript culture infobox
Filmed in: A 119/18
Title: Jātakamālā
Dimensions: 38 x 14.5 cm x 694 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: Newari
Languages: Newari
Subjects: Bauddha; Jātaka
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 4/1377
Remarks: A 858/26-8
Reel No. A 119-18 to A 120-1
Inventory No. 40060
Title [Aṣṭamīvratapurāṇa]
Remarks a collection of Jātaka/Avadāna in Newari
Author
Subject Bauddha, Jātaka, Avadāna
Language Newari
Manuscript Details
Script Newari
Material paper
State incomplete
Size 38 x 14.5 cm
Binding Hole(s) none
Folios 690 - 44 = 646
Lines per Folio 9
Foliation figures in the middle of the right-hand margin on the verso; each chapter has an own foliation in the left margin
Scribe
Date of Copying saṃvat 979 (November 1858 C.E.)
King Surendra Vikramaśāha
Place of Deposit NAK
Accession No. 4/1377
Manuscript Features
Illustrations at the beginning of some chapters.
On reel no. A 120/1 folios are photographed in the following order, partly repeated:
517–573, 630–666, 554–573, 670–675, 618–669, 676–690
Excerpts
Beginning
(1)❖ oṃ namo śrīrvajrasatvāyaḥ || ||
hnāpāṃ śrīrvajrasatvatathāgatayātaḥ namaskā(2)laḥ || ||
viharati kanakāndauḥ sākyasiṃha munīndrau
'parimittasūrasaṃghaiḥ spavya(3)māno yanoghaiḥ
kuvarayadalanetroḥ lakṣaṇai yuktagātraṃḥ
sma bhavahitaḥ ṭastha sarvvalo(4)kaihitasthaḥ || ||<ref>Full of mistakes. The stanza reads in A 125-9 as follows:
- viharati kanakādrau śākyasiṃho munīndro
- 'parimitasurasaṃghaiḥ sevyamāno janaughaiḥ |
- kuvalayadalanetro lakṣaṇair yuktagātraḥ
- smarabhavadhitaṭasthaḥ sarvvaloke hitasthaḥ ||</ref> (fol. 1v1–4)
Sub-colophons
iti śrībuddhajanmakha samāptam itti || (fol. 4r)
iti śrīvāsiṣṭhariṣiśvalasya vyākhyānakathā samāptaḥ || (fol. 19v)
iti śrīupoṣadhāvadāne aṣṭamīmāhātmya upoṣadhadevaputrotpatti samāptaḥ || (fol. 35r)
iti śrīmā[ṃ]dhātā-rājasya vyākhyāna parīsamāptaḥ || (fol. 49r)
iti śrīikṣākuśamahārājasya vyākhyānakthā samāptaḥ || (fol. 61v)
iti śrīvīlakuśaḥvyākhyānaḥ nepāla(bhā) .. .. .. .. pra samāptaḥ || (fol. 204v)
iti śrīvisvaṃttalarājakumālaḥvyākkhyāna palisamāptaḥ || (fol. 267r)
iti śrīmaṭavāhanarājakathā samāpta || (fol. 280v)
iti śrīmaṇicūḍāvadānodhṛta nepālabhākhā samāptaḥ || (fol. 329v)
iti śrīsi[ṃ]harasārthavāhuḥ vyākhyāna [ne]pālaḥbhākhā parisamāptaṃ ||(fol. 399v)
iti śrībhadrakalpāvadāne sasabhūpena vanāṃtaravāsimṛgā ..i sava uddhāra bodhicaryyāvatāraṇakathā samāptaḥ || iti śrīupoṣa[dha]devaputravyāṣyāna parisamāptaḥ || (fol. 405v)
iti śrīnamobuddhabhaṭṭārakasya dharmavratakathā parisamāptaḥ || (fol. 422r)
iti śrīkumbheśvarakathāvyākhyāna parisamāptaḥ || (fol. 430v)
iti śrīsākyamunibuddhabhagatārakasyaḥ śrīviracitaḥ upoṣaḍha-nāmaḥ devaputrakathāstotraṃ samāptaṃ || (fol. 448r)
iti śrīśucaṃd[r]agṛhaspativyāṣyāna parisamāpaptaḥ || (fol. 459r)
iti śrīśivadatarājā-uddhārakathā samāptaṃ || (fol. 464r)
iti śrīupoṣadhadevaputraḥ sasacā-avadāna parisamāptaḥ || (fol. 470r)
iti śrīupoṣadhadevaputra harinivyāṣyāna parisamāptaṃḥ || (fol. 474r)
iti vratāpadānamālāyām upoṣadhaprasa[ṃ]sāyāṃ kavikumāravadānaṃ samāptaḥ || (fol. 497r)
[Images of fols. 501v–517r are not found.]
iti śrīupaguptasaṃvāde aṣṭamīvarttamāhānme sānumantrajānaṣa nāma samāptaṃ || (fol. 532v)
iti śrīupaguptabhāṣitā śrīmāyādevī-avadāna parisamāptaḥ || (fol. 553r–v)
iti śrīsarvvārthasiddhikumāravyākhyānakathā samāptaḥ || (fol. 573v)
[Fols. 574–617 are missing.]
iti śrīvicitrakarṇṇikāvadāne tṛtīyo dhyāya samāptaḥ || [marginal title: "Padmaketu"] (fol. 629v)
iti vratāvadānamālāyāṃm aśokopaguptabhāṣitā aṣṭamivratānusaṃsāyām ajātaśatrudamanāvadānaṃ parisamāptaḥ || (fol. 666v)
iti śrīdivyāvadāne śrīśākemunitathāgata, vyākhyāna, aṣṭavrata, nepārabhāṣā, palisamāptaḥ || (fol. 670r)
iti śrīmūkaaṣṭamivrata virupākṣadiāvadāne palisamāptaṃ || (fol. 679r)
iti śrīpoṣaḍhāvadhāne koṭikarṇṇavyākhyāna palisamāptaḥ || (fol. 689v)
Colophon
<ref>The transcript is tentative.</ref>|| śubha || śreyo stu || saṃmvata 979 miti kārttikaśuklayā paṃcami, pūrvāṣāḍhāna[kṣa]tra, dhṛtiyoga budhavāra, thva khuhnu, thva śrīastamivrata saṃpūrṇṇa siddhayakā dina jula, || ||
svasti śrīgirīrāja cakra caudāmani nara nārāyana (tyā)di vividha vīrudāvari virājamāna nānānatamā nirgalādhipati, rājādhirāja surendra vikramasāhasya vijayarāje || ||
likhitaṃ mānadevasasakārita cakramavihārāvasthita śrīvajrācāryya (cika)dhigu bhājana coyāgu julo || ||
thva astamivratapurāna saṃpurṇṇana dayakā dina jula, || thva kiyā prabhāvana, dhanajanasaṃntā thila juyamāla, || kṛvikṛyavāniryya vyapāla sāphalya juyamāla, dasākuśalapāpamocana juyamāla, akālamṛ|tūbhayatāyaya juyamāla, rājabhaya caurabhaya, | aganibhaya, madayamāla maṃgalā piṃgarā, bhrāmani, bhadikā, ulakā siddhā sakārista doṣa sānta juyamāla, nagu(gra)ha sānta juyamāla, || || iha stesuṣaṃ saṃpati, antakāre mokṣagati juyamāla, || ||
yādistaṃ pustakaṃ ditvā, tādista likhi mayā jadi śuddham asūddhaṃ vā mama doṣo na diyate || śubha || || (fol. 689v5–690r5)
Microfilm Details
Reel No. A 119/18 to A 120/1
Date of Filming not recorded
Exposures 512 + 200 = 713
Used Copy Kathmandu (scan)
Type of Film positive
Remarks A 119/18 ends with fol. 501r and A 120/1 begins with fol. 517v. Images of fols. 501v–517r are not found. Retake on A 858-26.
Catalogued by MD
Date 27-10-2013
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