A 136-3 Pañcarakṣā

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: A 136/3
Title: Pañcarakṣā
Dimensions: 29 x 7 cm x 127 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: unknown
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Bauddha; Bauddha
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 4/1595
Remarks:

Reel No. A 136-3 Inventory No. 51745

Title Pañcarakṣā

Subject Bauddha Sūtra

Language Sanskrit

Reference

Manuscript Details

Script Newari

Material paper

State incomplete

Size 29.0 x 07.0 cm

Binding Hole 2, one in centre left and one in centre right

Folios 117

Lines per Folio 6

Foliation figures in middle right-hand margin of the verso

Illustrations 1v centre, 2r centre, and on the exp. 33, 70, 120, 129

Scribe

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 4/1595

Manuscript Features

MS contains the five rakṣāsūtras; four sūtras are completed and the last one is nearly to end.

Scribe foliates 1010-1017, instead of 110-117.

Excerpts

«Beginning: »

❖ oṃ namo bhagavatyai āryamahāpratisarāyai ||

evam mayā śrutam ekasmin samaye bhagavān mahāvajrameruśikharakūṭāmāre viharati sma | mahāvajra samādhi bhūmipratisṭhāne mahāvajrakalpavṛkṣasamalaṃkṛte mahāvajrayuktā ratnī ratnaprasabhodbhāṣite (++9)(styānarūpī) nanu ++++mahāvajramaṇḍale (fol. 1v1–3)

«End: »

āryasatyāni vadataḥ sarva⟨ḥ⟩ svasti kariṣyati || devā (‥ ‥ ) kalā sarve jitā †dharmanibhāyinā† vasīkṛtā sarvagatyāḥ sarvasvasti kariṣyati || svasti vaḥ kurutāṃ buddhaḥ svsti devāḥ saha‥kāḥ | svasti sarvāṇi bhūtāni ++9 (fol. 121v5–6)

«Sub-colophon: »

āryamahāsāhasrapramadanī nāma mahāyānasūtram iti samāptaḥ || ❁ || ❁ ❁ ❁ ❁ ❁ ❁ ❁ ❁ ❁ ❁ ❁ || || śubham astu || (fol. 70r5–6)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. A 136/3

Date of Filming not indicated

Exposures 135

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Remarks two exposures of fols. 9v–10r, 48v–49r, 52v–53r, 53v–54r, 55v–56r, and 100v–101r,

Catalogued by MS/RA

Date 16-03-2009

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