A 922-6(1) (Subhāṣitaratnakaraṇḍaka)
Manuscript culture infobox
Filmed in: A 922/6
Title: Puṇyaprotsāhanakathā
Dimensions: 30.6 x 7.5 cm x 35 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: Newari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Bauddha; Kathā
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 1/1123
Remarks:
Reel No. A 922-6 (1)
Inventory No. 110190
Title [Subhāṣitaratnakaraṇḍaka]
Remarks The title above is that of an enlarged version of the work (cf. "Manuscript Features").
Author
Subject Bauddha, Kathā
Language Sanskrit
Manuscript Details
Script Newari
Material paper
State almost complete
Size 30.6 x 7.5 cm
Binding Hole(s) 2
Folios 20
Lines per Folio 6
Foliation numerals in the right margin of the verso
Place of Deposit NAK
Accession No. 1/1123
Manuscript Features
Available folios: 1-20. The last folio is missing.
[A 922-6] exp. 16b-19a (fols. 1-3), 14b-15a (fol. 4), 20b-36 (fols. 5-20)
[A 119-3] exp. 2-7a (fols. 1-3), 25b-26a (fol. 4), 8b-24a (fols. 5-20)
Folio no. 4 on exposures 19b-20a (7b-8a of A 119-3) is in fact folio no. 5 of A 922-6(2) (Ahorātravratakathā).
The manuscript contains the core of the Subhāṣitaratnakaraṇḍaka, the first 22 chapters on the dāna-pāramitā. This may be a good evidence that the work was first composed of 22 chapters only and 5 chapters on the other five pāramitā have been added later. It is not clear whether the original work was already entitled Subhāṣitaratnakaraṇḍaka.
The Subhāṣitaratnakaraṇḍakathā with 27 chapters on all the six pāramitā has been edited by A. C. Banerjee (1959), Heinz Zimmermann (1975) and Michael Hahn (1982).
Excerpts
Beginning
(fol. 1v1) ❖ namo mañjunā⟪na⟫thāya ||
mānuṣyaṃ samavāpya duṣkaraśatair llabdh[v]ā durāpaṅ kṣaṇaṃ
⟨s⟩mṛtyau niṣpratikāradāru[[natare]] nityaṃ pura[ḥ]sthāyini |
yātheya(2)n<ref>Read pātheyaṃ</ref> damadānasa[ṃ]yama[ma]yaṃ yai[r] nna⟨ṃ⟩ prabhūtaṃ kṛtaṃ ||
sasāyotra<ref>Read saṃsārogra-</ref>maru⟨t⟩prapātapatitāḥ prāpsyanti duḥkhāni te ||
mānuṣyaṃ durllabham prāpya vidyutsampā(3)tacañcalaṃ ||
bhavakṣaye mati[ḥ] kā[r]yyā bhavopakaraṇeṣu vā ||
mānuṣyatvaṃ samā[[sā]]dya vidyujvālārmmicañcalaṃ<ref>Read vidyujjvālormi-</ref> |
puṇyam e(4)vātra kurvvīta yataś cintāmaṇi[r] nṛṇā(m) |
yasyān[u]bhāvāt mānuṣyam prāptam bhūyo pi sāmprat⟨t⟩a[m] ||
puṇyat(!) tad varddhayasve(5)ha yasmā hetuḥ sukhasya te
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Sub-colophon
- puṇyaprotsāhanakathā || (fol. 2r3)
- dharmmaśravaṇaprotsāhanakathāḥ || (fol. 2v6)
- durllabhamanuṣyakathā || (fol. 3r1)
- dānakathā || (fol. 5r5)
- puṇyakathā || (fol. 6r6)
- bimbakathā || (fol. 7r3)
- snānakathā || (fol. 7v3)
- kuṅkumādikathā || (fol. 8r3)
- cchatrakathā || (fol. 8v3)
- dhātvāropaṇakathā || (fol. 9r2)
- maṇḍalakathā || (fol. 9v3)
- bhojanakathā || (fol. 10r3)
- || (end of the section "pānakathā") (fol. 10v6)
- vastrakathā || (fol. 11r5)
- puṣpādikathā || (fol. 11v5)
- praṇāmakathā || (fol. 12r6)
- ujjvalakathā || (fol. 13r1)
- pradīpakathā || (fol. 13v4)
- vihārapratiṣṭhāpaṇakathā || (fol. 14r4)
- śayanāsanakathā || (fol. 14v2)
- kṣetrakathā || (fol. 15v4)
End
(fol. 19v6) sūcīmukhādikuharo[[da]]raśu(20r1)ṣkaga(!)trāḥ
keśāmbarā ravikaraiḥ palipītabhāsa(!)ḥ |
pretāḥ sadā sililalālasaṃyvāyadārnmās<ref>Read salilalālasayā yad ārttās</ref>
tat pānadānavikalena pha(2)lam vadanti ||
iti śrīpuṇyaprosv(!)āhane vicitraphalavarṇṇanā nāma dvāviṃśatitamaḥ paricchedaḥ || 22 || <references/>
Colophon
puṇyaprotsā(fol. 20r3)hana-śravaṇan dullabhaṃ tyāga-puṇyayoḥ ||
bimba-snānaṃ tathā gandhaṃ cchatraṃ dhātvā(!)varopaṇam ||
maṇḍalaṃ bhoja(4)naṃ pānaṃ vastraṃ puṣpādivarṇṇanam ||
praṇāmojvālikādīpavihāra-śayanāsanam ||
kṣetram vicitrañ caivā(5)ntam itya(metre!) bahudhā bhṛśam ||
kathā dvāviṃśati proktā bhūyodānasya varṇṇane ||
tata[ś ca]kampe samahīdharā dharā
velāṃ vya(6)tītya prasasāra sāgaraḥ |
saṃsaktamandrāśayasaukhyanisvanā
divaukasāṃ dundubhayaḥ prasasvanuḥ |<ref>A variation of this and the following two stanzas in Vaṃśastha metre is found in the anonymous Śākyasiṃhajātaka. Cf. Hahn 2011, pp. 212-213, vv. 35.59-61.</ref>
āsuḥ prasannāḥ kuku(20v1)bho(!) manoramā
uvāśa śuddhyā śaradīva tmanumān(!) |
paribhramaccandanacūrṇṇabhojitaṃ (!)
papāta citraṃ kusumaṃ nabhasthalā[t] ||
samāya(2)yur harṣitaphullalocanā
vṛndārakās tatra sahā[p]sarogaṇāḥ |
yayau manojñanmaguṇaḥ(!) prabhaṃ janaḥ
manaḥpramodaṃ(!) jaga(3)tāṃ vyajṛṃbhata ||
tasmin kṣaṇe śrībhagavān uvāca
śrīkāśyapaṃ padmadalāyatākṣaṃ ||
vilokya parṣaṅ(!)ga[[ṇa]]mu(4)khan taṃ(metre!)
savismayaṃ harṣitamānasaṃ ca
anena puṇy[e]na janā bhavantu
jarārujāmṛtyubhayena muktāḥ |
dha(5)rāḥ sadā sasyagaṇena pūrṇṇās
taḍitpinaddhe(!)svanitāḥ payodāḥ ||
praśāstu dharmmeṇa mahīmmahīndro(!)
lokas tu ratnatra(6)yapūjanehān |
vaiḍūryyamuktāmaṇibhūṣitāṅgān
a⟪ma⟫ntaḥpurapadmadalāyatākṣaḥ |
saṃgrā(!)vayet pāṭhayatīha dharmma
śṛ (end of the folio)
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Microfilm Details
Reel No. A 922-6
Date of Filming 02.08.1984
Exposures 37
Used Copy Kathmandu (scan)
Type of Film positive
Remarks Retake of A 119-3, beginning from the other side.
Catalogued by MD
Date 23. Nov. 2012
Bibliography
- Hahn, Michael: Die Subhāṣitaratnakaraṇḍakathā, Ein spätbuddhistischer Text zur Verdienstlehre. Nachrichten der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen, I. philologisch-historische Klasse, 1982, Nr. 9, pp. 313-374.
- Hahn, Michael: Poetical visions of the Buddha's former lives, Seventeen legends from Haribhaṭṭa's Jātakamālā, Delhi 2011.
