B 96-11 (Bodhisattva)Jātakāvadānamālā

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: B 96/11
Title: (Bodhisattva)Jātakāvadānamālā
Dimensions: 43 x 10 cm x 20 folios
Material: paper?
Condition: damaged
Scripts: Devanagari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Bauddha; Jātaka
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 3/259
Remarks:

Reel No. B 96-11

Inventory No. 26973

Title Bodhisattvajātakāvadānamālā

Remarks extract from Haribhaṭṭa's Jātakamālā

Author

Subject Bauddha, Avadāna

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Devanagari

Material paper

State incomplete

Size 43 x 10 cm

Binding Hole(s) none

Folios 39

Lines per Folio 9

Foliation [A] figures in the upper left-hand margin and the middle of the right-hand margin on the verso; [B] figures in the upper left-hand margin on the verso

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 3/259

Manuscript Features

Available folios: [A] 1–14, 20–33; [B] 1–11

The first part of the ms is consisted of 10 stories from Haribhaṭṭa's Jātakamālā (Nos. 2, 4, 5, 6, 11, 19, 20, 22, 12, and 32). The missing folios 15–19 must have contained the end of the Hastijātaka, the whole Candrajātaka, and the very beginning of the Mṛgajātaka. The tenth story Siṃhajātaka abruptly breaks off on fol. 33v3 after pratyarpaṇāc ca, and the next story Śākyasiṃhajātaka begins on a new leaf numbered "1". From this fact the manuscript is supposed to be a copy from B 98-4 whose six leaves (fols. 32–37) with the end of the Siṃhajātaka and the Maitrakanyakāvadāna have been moved into a ms of the Divyāvadānamālā (Reel No. A 123-6). Cf. Hahn 1992, 2007.

Excerpts

Beginning

(1r1) namo buddhāya ||    ||

yaḥ paraduḥkhair duḥkhī tadvichityai kṛtapratijñaś ca ||
jagadartham īhamānaḥ sa eva sahate svaduḥkhāni ||    ||

tadyathānuśrūyate buvidha<ref>Read vibudha-</ref>gaṇāśramabhūtāyāṃ nayapratāpavijitasarvasāmaṃtena brahmadattena rā(2)jñādhiṣṭhitāyāṃ vārāṇasyāṃ rājadhānyāṃ | upacitavipulaguṇadravyākaro 'nekaśāstrakalākauśalaprakh[y]ātakīrttiḥ | tyāgadākṣiṇyakṣamādīnām adhiṣṭhānaḥ(!) sakalalokatṛcchā(!)chedanakalāsu priyaḥ supriyo nāma bodhisatvaḥ sārthavāho babhū(3)va |

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Sub-colophons

iti badaradvīpajātakaṃ prathamaṃ || dāna | 37 | (fol. A3r7)
śaśajātakaṃ samāptaṃ caturthaṃ || (fol. A5b6)
caṃdraprabhajātakaṃ paṃcamaṃ || (fol. A8r4)
rūpyāvatījātakaṃ samāptaṃ ṣaṣṭaṃ || (fol. A10v4)
mṛgajātakaṃ (pra)thamaṃ || (fol. A13r6)

[Fols. A15–A19 are missing.]

iti mṛgajātakaṃ || (fol. A23r9)
iti mayūrajātakaṃ || (fol. A29r1)

[The Siṃhajātaka abruptly breaks off on fol. 33v3.]

iti śākyasiṃhastathāgatajātakaḥ samāptaḥ || (fol. B8r9)

End

vibhāti ka .. bhosūro(!) nabhasi yāvad uṣṇaprabhaḥ
prabhājaṭila(m)aṃḍalāhariṇalāṃca .. .oditaḥ ||
sphuraṃti kamalālayāḥ svabhuvi (6) yāvad avyāhataṃ
surāsuranamaskṛtaṃ sugataśāsanaṃ tiṣṭhatu ||

ity āha bhagavān buddho nanaṃdur bhikṣavo vacaḥ ||
śrutvā sarve pramodāḍhyā jagmuḥ satyāḥ(!) svam ālayaṃ ||    || (fol. B10v5-6: the end of the Karmaplotikasūtra)

Colophon

iti bodhisatvajātakāvadānamālā samāptā śubhaṃ ||    || (fol. B10v6)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. B 96-11

Date of Filming not recorded

Exposures 41

Used Copy Kathmandu (scan)

Type of Film positive

Remarks

Catalogued by MD

Date 15.01.2013

Bibliography

• Hahn, Michael 1992: Haribhaṭṭa and Gopadatta. Two Authors in the Succession of Āryaśūra. On the Rediscovery of Parts of Their Jātakamālās. Second edition. Throughly revised and enlarged. Tokyo 1992 (Studia Philologica Buddhica, Occasional Paper Series I).
• Hahn, Michael 2007: Haribhaṭṭa in Nepal. Ten Legends from His Jātakamālā and the Anonymous Śākyasiṃhajātaka. Tokyo 2007 (Studia Philologica Buddhica, Monograph Series 22).