A 117-12 Aśokāvadāna
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Filmed in: A 117/12
Title: Aśokāvadāna
Dimensions: x cm x folios
Material: paper?
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Reel No. A 117-12
Inventory No.
Title Aśokāvadānamālā
Remarks retake on A 844-10
Author
Subject Bauddha, Avadāna
Language Sanskrit
Manuscript Details
Script Devanagari
Material paper
State incomplete
Size 31 x 17 cm
Binding Hole(s) none
Folios 82
Lines per Folio 13–15
Foliation figures on the verso, in the upper left-hand margin under the abbreviated title a.śo and in the lower right-hand margin under guru
Place of Deposit NAK
Accession No. 3/599
Manuscript Features
The available folios contain the first 6 chapters and the beginning of the 7th chapter of the Āśokāvadānamālā.
Excerpts
Beginning
namaḥ sarvabuddhāryabodhisatvasaṃghebhyaḥ
yaḥ śrīmāṃl lokanāthas tribhuvananilaye mārasainyān vijitya
lokānāṃ puśya(!)hetoḥ satataśubhakaro bodhicaryāṃ dideśa
taṃ buddhaṃ śākyasiṃhaṃ sakalaguṇanidhiṃ śrīghanaṃ bodhirājaṃ
natvāśokāvadānaṃ sakalahitakaraṃ bodhihetoḥ pravakṣ[y]e
yenaiva trijagallokaṃ pālitaṃ putravat sadā
jayaṃtu śāsanāny asya munindrasya jagadguro
natvā taṃ śrīghanaṃ nāthaṃ mahābuddhaṃ muni(!)śvaraṃ
tatprasādād ahaṃ vakṣ[y]e ratnāvadānamālikāṃ
evaṃ mayā śrutaṃ pūrvaṃ yathā me gurubhāṣitaṃ
tathāhaṃ saṃpravakṣyāmi tac chṛṇuta śubhāṣitaṃ
tadyathāsīn mahīkhāṇḍa āryāvartte nasotume(!)
magadhabhu(!)pradeśe gra(!) gaṅgātīre pavitrite
nagaraṃ pāṭalīputraṃ bhūkāntātilakopamaṃ
subhikṣaṃ kamalāvāsaṃ sarvasampatsamṛddhitaṃ
(fol. 1v1–7)
Sub-colophons
ity upagupto(!)śokarājāvadānaṃ prathamo dhyāyaḥ 1 (fol. 8v)
ity upaguptāvadānaṃ (fol. 28v)
ity aśokāvadāne aśokadamanāvadānaṃ sa[mā]ptaṃ (fol. 60r)
iti śrīaśokāvadāne aśokanṛpatipāṃśupradānāvadānaṃ caturtho dhyāya samāptam iti 4 (fol. 64v)
iti śrīmadaśokāvadāne kuṇālāvadānaṃ samāptaṃ 5 (fol. 72r)
iti vītāśokāvadānaṃ samāptaṃ 6 (fol. 82r)
End
candrādayaś ca tāreśāḥ sarvāś ca tārakā api
teṣāṃ bhadraṃ sadā loke kurvante vanavi(ghna)tāṃ
vemacitrādidaityaṃndrā(!) mahāvīrā maharddhikāḥ
sadānugā ripuṃ hatvā teṣāṃ ājñā vahanti ca
sarvāś ca mātṛkā durgā bhairavāś ca gaṇādhipāḥ
mahākālāḥ kumāraś(!) ca rakṣ⟨y⟩ante (vañch)itārthadāḥ
tathā vidyādharāś cāpi siddhāḥ sāddhāś(!) ca kinnarā[ḥ]
vasavaḥ puttanā(!) raudrā mārā[ḥ] kāmādayo pi ca
rasātalacarāś cāpi bhucārā(!) (kh)ecarā api⟨ḥ⟩
sarve tridhātukasthā[ś] ca rakṣantv ājñākarāṃ sadā⟨ḥ⟩
ma⟨ṃ⟩nvādimunayaś cāpi cakravarttyādayo nṛpāḥ
sarve pi maṃtriṇo mātyā janāsai- (fol. 82v13–15)
Colophon
(missing)
Microfilm Details
Reel No. A 117/12
Date of Filming not recorded
Exposures 90
Used Copy Kathmandu (scan)
Type of Film positive
Remarks
Catalogued by MD
Date 25-10-2013
Bibliography
- Iwamoto, Yutaka: Bukkyō setsuwa kenkyū josetsu 『佛教説話研究序説』, revised ed., Kyoto 1978, pp. 179–181.
- Okano, Kiyoshi: http://homepage3.nifty.com/indology/asokavadanamala.html
