A 39-5(2) Kāraṇḍavyūhamahāyānasūtra

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: A 39/5
Title: Kāraṇḍavyūhamahāyānasūtra
Dimensions: 48 x 4.5 cm x 56 folios
Material: palm-leaf
Condition:
Scripts: Newari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Bauddha; Bauddha
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 3/359
Remarks:

Reel No. A 39/5

Inventory No. 80249

Title Kāraṇḍavyūha

Subject Bauddhasūtra

Language Sanskrit

Reference Shastri 1915:6–7.

Manuscript Details

Script Kuṭilā + Newari

Material palm-leaf

State complete but damaged at margins

Size 31 x 4.5 cm

Binding Hole 2

Folios 52

Lines per Folio 5

Foliation figures in the right margin of the verso

Date of Copying [NS] 88 vaiśākhaśukla 5

Donor Bodhigupta

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 3-365

Manuscript Features

The first folio of the original MS is replaced by a new folio written in relatively late Newari script. After the Kāraṇḍavyūha, the Uṣṇīṣavijayadhāraṇī begins on fol. 52v3 in the same handwriting.

Excerpts

Beginning

oṃ namo bhagavatyai(!) āryāvalokiteśvarāya ||

evam mayā śrutam ekasmin samaye bhagavān śrāvastyām viharati sma jetavane anāthapiṇḍadasyārāme mahatā bhikṣusaṃghena sārddham arddhatrayodaśabhir bhikṣuśataiḥ | (fol. 1v1)

///(bodhisatvena mahāsatvena) dharmadhareṇa 〇 bodhisatvena mahāsatvena || pṛthivīvaralocanena ca bodhisatvena mahāsatvena |〇 aśuhastena ca bodhisatvena mahāsatvena || maitreyeṇa ca bodhisatvena mahāsatvena | evaṃpramukhā aśītibodhisatvakādyāḥ sannipatitāḥ || anye ca 〇dvātriṃśadevaputranikāyāḥ sannipatitāḥ | maheśvaranārāyaṇadevaputrapū〇rvvaṅgamaiḥ śakro devānām indraḥ brahmā ca sahāṃpatiḥ etc. (fol. 2r1–2)

Sub-colophon

ayaṃ kāraṇḍavyūhasya mahāyānasūtraratnarājasya prathamo niryūhaḥ || (fol. 23r2)

End

atha te mahāśrāvakāḥ svakasvakeṣu buddhakṣetre 〇 prakrāntāḥ | sarvadevanāgaya〇kṣa(gandharvāsu)ragaruḍakinnaramahoragamanuṣyāmanuṣyāḥ sarvve te prakrā{ntā}ntāḥ || idam avo〇cad bhagavān āttamanāḥ sā ca sarvāva〇tī parṣat sadevamānuṣāsuragandha[rva]ś ca loko bhagavato bhāṣitam abhyanandann iti (fol. 52r1–3)

Colophon

āryakāraṇḍavyūham mahāyānasūtraṃ sāmāptaṃ(!) ||    || (fol. 62r2–5)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. A 39/5

Date of Filming 23-09-70

Exposures 58

Used Copy Berlin

Type of Film negative

Remarks

Catalogued by DA

Date 27-09-2004

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