B 97-5 Divyāvadānamālā

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: B 97/5
Title: Divyāvadānamālā
Dimensions: 40 x 10 cm x 498 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: Newari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Avadāna; Bauddha
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 5/36
Remarks:

Reel No. B 97-5

Inventory No. 19716

Title Divyāvadāna[mālā]

Remarks 30 stories from the Divyāvadāna, a legend from the Mahāvastu, the Maitrakanyakāvadāna (= Avadānaśataka 36), the Śaśāvadāna (= Avadānaśataka 37), the Kaṭhināvadāna, and the Ahorātravratacaityasevānuśaṃsāvadāna

Author

Subject Avadāna

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Newari

Material paper

State complete

Size 40 x 10 cm

Binding Hole(s) [ACDEF] none; [B] space in the center-left without hole

Folios 531

Lines per Folio 7

Foliation [AE] numerals in the right margin on the verso; [B] letters in the left margin, and small numerals at the lower right-hand corner (fols. 1-69) or the upper right-hand corner (fol. 70-213; starting from one); [CDF] small numerals at the lower right-hand corner on the verso

Scribe -

Date of Copying -

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 5/36

Manuscript Features

The manuscript consists of 6 blocks each of which has an own foliation. There is no consecutive foliation through the ms. A, B, and D are written by several scribes.

[A] 198 folios - 13 stories from the Divyāvadāna and an episode from the Mahāvastu
[B] 213 folios - 13 stories from the Divyāvadāna
[C] 52 folios - 2 stories from the Divyāvadāna
[D] 45 folios - 2 stories from the Divyāvadāna and 2 x 2 stories from the Avadānaśataka
[E] 5 folios - Kaṭhināvadāna
[F] 19 folios - Ahorātravratacaityasevānuśaṃsāvadāna

A leaf photographed between E and F contains an incomplete table of contents which lists only the first 7 stories.

In A fol. 106 is lost.
There is no folio with number 129. The text continues from 128v to 130r.

The stories from the Divyāvadāna are copied in a curious order (see the sub-colophons below), probably because the original manuscript was portioned to several scribes to let them work simultaneously and copies made were bundled together without much care about the order.

The numbering of the stories is different from that of the edition of Cowell & Neil. According to Iwamoto's comparable table of the Divyāvadāna based on mss kept in Tokyo, Paris, Bengal and Kyoto, our ms has a similar order to the Kyoto ms. The order of the stories in block B is exactly the same. Moreover, both mss include two stories from the Avadānaśataka. These two stories, i.e., the Maitrakanyakāvadāna and the Śaśāvadāna, are copied twice in block D in our ms.

The seventh story in block A has no title, but is named as "śāriputramahāmaudgalyāyana" in the incomplete table of contents. This is an extract from the Mahāvastu and tells how Śāriputra and Mahāmaudgalyāyana became disciple of the Buddha and how they were rescued by a horse king Keśin (Bodhisattva) from the Rākṣasīdvīpa as they were merchants in the remote past. The text corresponds to pages III.56.6-77.11 of Senart's edition.

Block E contains a short version of the Kaṭhināvadāna.<ref>The text is included in the ms of the Divyāvadāna kept in Paris too. Cf. Iwamoto 1978, p. 145.</ref> Its text is close to that of A119-15 (ms E in Degener's edition), but not the same. § 4 is extended in our ms.

Block F contains the Ahorātravratacaityasevānuśaṃsāvadāna.<ref>The ms of the Divyāvadāna in the Tokyo University Library (no. 133) includes as the 17th story the Caityavratānuśaṃsā, another text from the same genre. Cf. Iwamoto 1978, p. 146.</ref> Our ms has common readings with the ms kept in the Tokyo University Library (no. 55; ms C in Handurukande's edition).

On the whole the ms is written carefully, but it has more than a few simple mistakes. Probably the original mss were already faulty.

Excerpts

Beginning

(fol. 1v1) ❖ namaḥ sarvvajñāya ||

buddho bhagavāṃ cchrāvastyāṃ viharati sma | jetavane 'nāthapiṇḍadasyārāme | asmāparāntakeṣu vāsavagrāmake bala(2)seno nāma gṛhapatiḥ prativasaty ā⟨||⟩ddhyo(Read āḍhyo) mahādhano mahābhogo vistīrṇṇa,viśālaparigraho vaiśravaṇadhanasamudito | vaiśravaṇadhanapra(3)tisparddhī, tena sadṛśāt kulā[t] kalatram ānīta[m] || sa⟨ḥ⟩ tayā sārddhaṃ krīḍati ramate paricāra[ya]ti || so 'putraḥ putrābhinandī śivavaruṇaku(4)beraśakrabrahmādīn āyācate || ārāmadevatāṃ vanadevatāṃ, śṛṃgāṭakadevatāṃ balipratigrāhikān devatāṃ | sahajā[ṃ] sahadharmmikā[ṃ] nityā(5)nubaddhām api devatān(!) āyācate || asti caiṣa loke pravādo yad āyācanahetoḥ putro(!) jāyante duhitaraś ceti || tac ca naivaṃ saced evam a(6)bhaviṣyad ekaikasya putraṃ sahasram abhaviṣyan, tadyathā rājñaś cakravarttinaḥ ||

Sub-colophon & colophon

[A]
śroṇakoṭīkarṇṇāvadānaṃ prathama (fol. 19r3)
iti pūrṇṇovadānaṃ dvitiyādhyāya (fol. 45v6)
maitrayovadāna tṛtīyaḥ (fol. 56r3)
svāgatākhavadanaṃ nāma trayodaśamaḥ (fol. 79v4)
iti dharmarucyavadānam aṣṭādaśaḥ (fol. 107r3)
iti jyotiṣkovadānam ūnaviṃśatimaḥ (fol. 131v2)
(end of an extract from the Mahāvastu)(fol. 146r)
miṇḍakagṛhapativibhūtipariccheda navamaḥ (fol. 161v7)
meṇḍakāvadānaṃ daśamaḥ (fol. 166r5)
sahaso[d]gatasya prakaraṇāvadānam ekaviṃśatimaṃ (fol. 180v4)
saṃgharakṣi[tā]vadā[naṃ] nāma dvāviṃśatima (fol. 194v1)
nāgakumārāvadānaṃ || śro 48 || 23 ||(fol. 197r1)
śroka 28 || 24 || [[saṃgharakṣitikāvadāna samāptaṃ ||]]<ref>This addition was made by a later hand which also marked the leaves of the story with saṃgharakṣitikā on the upper left-hand margin.</ref>(fol. 198r5)

[B]
iti vītāśokāvadānam ekonatriṃśati (fol. 7r3)
iti aśo[kā]vadānaṃ triṃśatimaṃ (fol. 10v2)
iti maṇicūḍāvadānaṃ ekatriṃśatimaṃ (fol. 40v5)
iti sudhana⟨ḥ⟩kumārāvadānaṃ dv⟨i⟩ātriṃśatimaṃ (fol. 57r6)
iti cchinnabhakto brāhmaṇāvadānaṃ trayastriṃśattamaṃ (fol. 58v1)
iti pañcakārṣakāśatāvadānaṃ catuḥtriṃśatimaṃ (fol. 59v5)
iti kṛṣiko brāhmaṇāvadānaṃ pañcatriśatimaṃ (fol. 62r6)
iti rūpāvatyavadānaṃ ṣaṭtriṃśattamaṃ (fol. 69v4)
iti śārddūlakarṇṇāvadānaṃ saptatriṃśattamaṃ (fol. 147r5)
iti dānādhikāramahāyā[na]sūtraṃ aṣṭatriṃśattamaṃ (fol. 148r6)
iti cūḍāpakṣāvadānam ekonacatvāriḥ (fol. 166v7)
iti mākandikāvadānaṃ catvāriḥ (fol. 185r6)
iti rudrāyaṇāvadānam ekacatvāriḥ (fol. 213r6)

[C]
iti supriyo'vadānam aṣṭamaṃ (fol. 30r2)
māndhātāvadānaṃ saptadaśamaḥ (fol. 52v1)

[D]
kanakavarṇṇa'vadānaṃ viṃśatima (fol. 7r4)
maitrakanyakāvadāna samāptam (fol. 14v4)
śaśakāvadānaṃ samāpatam⟨a⟩ (fol. 18v8)
maitrakanyakavadāna samāptam (fol. 27r6)
śaśakāvadānaṃ samāptam⟨a⟩ (fol. 31r5)
candraprabhabodhisatvacaryāvadānam⟨a⟩ dvāviṃśatima (fol. 44v5)

[E]
(none)

[F]
ity ahorātravratacaityasevānuśansāvadāna samāptaṃ (fol. 19r2)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. B 97-5

Date of Filming not indicated

Exposures 543

Used Copy Kathmandu (scan)

Type of Film positive

Remarks Two exposures: [A] 18v-19r, 21v-22r, 84v-85r, 102v-103r, 103v-104r, 105v-107r, 122v-123r, 124v-125r; [D] 13v-14r,

Blurred exposures: [A] 13r, 31r, 143v-144r; [B] 43v-44r, 50v, 52v-53r, 77v-78r, 94r, 108v-109r, 112v-113r, 154r, 164v-165r, 178v-179r, 189v-190r, 191v, 197r; [D] 24r; [F] 2r, 9v, 12v

Many leaves were too hastily photographed.

Catalogued by MD

Date 21. Sep. 2012

Bibliography

• E. B. Cowell and R. A. Neil: Divyāvadāna, a Collection of Early Buddhist Legends, Cambridge 1886.

• A. Degener: Das Kaṭhināvadāna, eingeleitet, herausgegeben und übersetzt, Bonn 1990 (Indica et Tibetica 16).

• R. Handurukande: Three Sanskrit Texts on Caitya Worship in relation to the Ahorātravrata, an edition and synopses in English (with an introduction), Tokyo 2000 (Studia Philologica Buddhica, Monograph Series XVI).

• S. Hiraoka 平岡聡: 『ブッダが謎解く三世の物語 ― 「ディヴィヤ・アヴァダーナ」全訳』(Japanese translation of the Divyāvadāna), 2 vols., Kyoto 2007.

• Y. Iwamoto: Bukkyō setsuwa kenkyū josetsu, revised ed., Kyoto 1978, pp. 135-164.

• E. Senart: Le Mahāvastu, publié pour la première fois et accompagné d'introductions et d'un commentaire, Paris 1882-1897.

• J. S. Speyer: Avadānaçataka, a century of edifying tales belonging to the Hīnayāna, St. Petersburg, 1902-1909 (Bibliotheca Buddhica 3).

• P. L. Vaidya: Divyāvadāna, Darbhanga 1959 (Buddhist Sanskrit Texts No. 20).

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