A 111-4 Gaṇḍavyūha

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: A 111/4
Title: Gaṇḍavyūha
Dimensions: 40 x 13 cm x 359 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: Newari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Bauddha; Darśana
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 4/15
Remarks:

Reel No. A 111-4

Inventory No.: 21408

Reel No.: A 111/4

Title Gaṇḍavyūha

Remarks an alternative title is Gaṇḍavyūhamahāyānasūtraratnarāja

Subject Bauddha Darśana

Language Sanskrit

Reference

Manuscript Details

Script Newari

Material

State incomplete

Size 40.0 x 13.0 cm

Folios 359

Lines per Folio 9–10

Foliation figures in the middle of the left-hand margin

gaṇḍavyūha/gadhavṛha is written on the upper left-hand margin

Scribe

King

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 4/15

Manuscript Features

Fol. 353 is missing.

The MS contains many scribal errors.

There are two exposures of fols. 4v–5r, 17v–18r, 59v–61r, 77v–78r, 85v–87r, 169v–170r, 186v–187r, 285v–286r, 289v–290r and 292v–293r.

There are three exposures of fols. 37v–38r, 125v–126r and 128v–129r.

Excerpts

Beginning

❖ oṃ namaḥ śrīvajrasatvāyaḥ ||

❖ oṃ namaḥ śrīsarvabuddhabodhisatvebhyaḥ || || gaṇḍavyūhamahārṇṇavastotra ninādibhojinasūtānāṃ parṣanmaṇḍalasāgaranāmnā vyūhādikaṃ proktaṃ || sūgata samādhyavataraṇāciṃtyabuddhadarśanaṃ caiva || dhīmat saṃghā ʼgamanaṃ śrāvakaviṣayānugamanañ ca || stutimeghācintyamahadbuddhotpādaprakāśakaṃ sudhiyāṃ || saddharmaratnasāgarasamaṃtabhadrārthanideśaṃ || sarva tathāgatasurucirasamādhisāgaraparaṃprā⟪..⟫gamanāt || jinasutasamādhisāgaraparaṃparāś cānugantavyāḥ || iti sugatasamadhiśatair vimokṣasāgaraparaṃparābhiś ca || sugatātmajena sudhiyāmaṃjuśrīnāmadheyena || nirdiśatā sugatānāṃ vyūham aciṃtyan tathā jinasutānāṃ | vikrīḍitai bahuvidhaiḥ sphuṭaṃ jagadanantaparyyantaṃ || tasyaivaṃ nirddiśato daśabala tena yasya bodhibalasatvāḥ || (fol. 1v1–7)

End

idam avocad bhagavāṃ nāttamanā sudhanaḥ | śreṣṭhidārakas te ca bodhisatvā āryyamañjuśrīpūrvaṃgamās te bhi ava āryyamaṃjuśrīparipācitās te cāryyamaitreyapūrvvaṅgamā samantabhadrakalpikā bodhisatvās te cāryya śāliputramaudgalyāyanapramukhāḥ mahāśrāvakāḥ sā ca sarvāvatī parṣat sadevamānuṣāsuragandharvaloko bhagavataḥ samantabhadrasya bodhisatvasya bhāṣitamabhyanandann iti || || āryyagandhamahādharmmaparyyāyād yathālabdhaḥ sudhanakalyāṇamitraparyyupāsitacaryyekadeśaḥ || āryyagandhavyūho mahāyānena sutraratnarāja samāptaḥ || || ye dharmmā tyāti || || || || (fol. 359v2–7)

Colophon

Microfilm Details

Reel No. A 111/4

Exposures 382

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Catalogued by RT

Date 05-03-2009

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