A 123-3 Lalitavistara

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: A 123/3
Title: Lalitavistara
Dimensions: 34.5 x 14 cm x 110 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: unknown
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Bauddha; Bauddha
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 5/294
Remarks:

Reel No. A 123-3 Inventory No. 27215

Title Lalitavistara

Subject Bauddha Darśana

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Devanagari

Material paper

State incomplete

Size 34.5 x 14.0 cm

Folios 82+15+6+7=110

Lines per Folio 8–12

Foliation figures on the verso, in the upper left-hand margin under the abbreviation lalita and in the lower right-hand margin under the abbreviation vistaraḥ

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 5/294

Manuscript Features

There are tow exposures of fols. 10v–11r, 41v–42r, 45v–46r, 48v–49r, 52v–53r, 56v–57r, 61v–62r and 4 (the second foliation).

Excerpts

Beginning

oṁ namaḥ sarvabuddhabodhisatvāryyaśrāvakapratyek,bodhisatvāryya-atītānāgatapratyutpannebhyaḥ ||          ||

yaḥ śrīmān bhagavāñ chāstā mahābuddho munīśvaraḥ ||

jayati śāsanaṃ tasya sarvatra bhuvaneṣv api ||

ye⟨ṃ⟩na śāstā(!) jagattokaṃ putrapa(!)t paripālitaṃ ||

tadājñāṃ śirasā dhṛtvā vakṣye [ʼ]haṃ tat subhāṣitaṃ ||

yā śrīprajñā mahādevī bhadraśrī(!) sadguṇākarī ||

saddharmmasādhanotsāhaṃ datvā lokā sadāvatu ||

ye jagaddharmmabhartārā(!) bodhisatvājinātmajāḥ ||

tasya lokeśabhāvena vakṣye haṃ bodhisādhanaṃ ||

tad yathābhūn mahābhijño jayaśrīḥ sugatātmajaḥ ||

bodhisatvo mahāsatvaḥ sarvasatvahitārthabhṛt || (fol.1v1–4 1^st foliation)

End

tvam api ca mahārājaś śrutvaitad anumodatāṃ |

śrutvedaṃ ye numodaṃti pravrajyāvratacāraṇaṃ |

te pi sarve mahāsatvā bhaveyuḥ śrīgaṇāśrayāḥ |

iti śāstrārhatā diṣṭaṃ śrutvā śoka(!) mahīpatiḥ |

tatheti prativijñapyaṃ prābhyanaṃdat sapārṣadaḥ ||        || (fol. 7r7–8 4^th foliation)

Colophon

iti śrīlalitavistare purābhiniṣkramaṇaparivartto nāmaikaviṃśatitamo ʼdhyāyaḥ || 

(fol. 7r8 4^th foliation)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. A 123/3

Date of Filming none

Exposures 120

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Catalogued by BK

Date 07-11-2008

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