A 1333-9 Kāraṇḍavyūha
Manuscript culture infobox
Filmed in: A 1333/9
Title: [Kāraṇḍavyūha]
Dimensions: 31 x 8 cm x 94 folios
Material: paper?
Condition: damaged
Scripts: Newari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Bauddha; Bauddha
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 4/12
Remarks: I, = A 108
Reel No. A 1333-9
Title: Kāraṇḍavyūha
Subject: Bauddha, Bauddhasūtra
Language: Sanskrit
Manuscript Details
Script: Newari (Rañjanā)
Material: Nīlapattra
State: almost complete
Size: 31.0 x 8.0 cm
Binding Hole: 2
Folios: 94
Lines per Folio: 5
Foliation: figures in the right and letters in the left margin of the verso
Illustrations: a painting on the first folio
Scribe: illegible (in microfilm)
Date of Copying:
Place of Copying: Kathmandu, Kīrtipuṇyamahāvihāra
King: illegible (in microfilm)
Donor: Jayakīrtika
Place of Deposit: NAK
Accession No.: 4-12
Manuscript Features
The second and fourth line of each page have been written with a darker or fainter ink (probably the golden colour which is mentioned in the colophon) and are mostly illegible in the microfilm.
Missing folio: no. 55.
Excerpts
Beginning
oṃ namo bhagavate āryāvalokiteśvarāya || evam mayā śrutam ekasmin samaye bhagavān śrāvastyām viharati sma || jetavane (...)<ref>The next line is illegible.</ref> ..bodhisatvai mahāsatvaiḥ tadyathā vajrapāṇinā ca nāma bodhisatvena mahāsatvena | jñānadarśane°(...) °na ca nāma bodhisatvena mahāsatvena || ākāśagarbbhena(!) ca nāma bodhisatvena ma(hāsa)tvena | sūryagarbbheṇa ca nāma bodhisatvena mahāsatvena | anikṣiptadhureṇa ca nāma bodhisatvena mahāsatvena | ratnapāṇinā ca bodhisatvena mahāsatvena | samantabhadreṇa ca nāma bodhisatvena mahāsatve ... (fol. 1v1-2r1) <references/>
End
ā..yuṣmān ānando bhagavataḥ pādau śirasā vanditvā prak(r)āntaḥ | atha te mahāśrāvakā svakasva(ka)m buddhakṣetreṣu prak(r)āntāḥ | te ca devanāgayakṣagandharvāsuragaru..kinnaramahoragamanuṣyāmanuṣyāḥ | sarve te prak(r)āntāḥ || || idam avocad bhagavān āttamanās te ca bhikṣava(!) te ca bodhisatvā mahāsatvā sā ca sa.vāvatī parṣat sadevamānuṣāsuragandharvaś ca loko bhagavato bhāṣitam abhyanandann iti || || (fol. 94r3-94v1)
Colophon
āryakāraṇḍavyūhan nāma mahāyānasūtraratnarājaṃ samāptam || || (fol. 94v1) (...) || || deyadharmo yaṃ pravaramahāyānayāyina(!) paramopāśakaparamadhātmika(!)bhikṣuśrījayakīrttikasya yad ata(!) puṇyaṃ tad bhavatv ācāryopā° (94v3) (...)°nasya vijayarāje(!) || dānapatiśrīkāṣṭhamaṇḍapamahānagare rañjanatvalake(?) , śrīkīrttipuṇyamahāvihāre , śrīvajradhātumahāvihārāvasthita , yaṃ ........ (94v5) nānāratnaparikṣaka dharmātmā..............śākyabhikṣuśrījasakīrttiju(...)<ref>a number of names follow</ref> (95r1) (...) bhagavān śrī3kāraṇḍavyūhapustake suvarṇṇarajatākṣareṇa likhitam iti || (fol. 95r3) <references/>
Microfilm Details
Reel No. A 1333/9
Date of Filming: 24-08-1988
Used Copy: Berlin
Type of Film: positive
Remarks: The same manuscript is filmed in A 108/6.
Catalogued by AM
Date: 16-03-2012
