B 98-4 (Bodhisattva)jātakamālā

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: B 98/4
Title: (Bodhisattva)jātakamālā
Dimensions: 36.5 x 10.5 cm x 46 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: Newari
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Bauddha; Jātaka
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 5/74
Remarks:

Reel No. B 98-4

Inventory No. 26974

Title Bodhisattvajātakāvadānamālā

Remarks extract from Haribhaṭṭa's Jātakamālā and some other stories; cf. B 96-11

Author

Subject Bauddha, Jātaka

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Newari

Material paper

State incomplete

Size 36.5 x 10.5 cm

Binding Hole(s) none

Folios 40 of 46

Lines per Folio 11

Foliation figures in the middle of the right-hand margin on the verso

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 5/74

Manuscript Features

Folios 32–37 are missing.

Excerpts

Beginning

❖ yaḥ paraduḥkhair duḥkhī tadvicchittyai kṛtapratijñaś ca |
jagadartham īhamānas sa eva sahate svaduḥkhāni ||

tadyathānuśrūyate

vibudhagaṇāśramabhūtāyāṃ nayapratāpavijitasarvasāmantena brahmadattena rājñādhiṣṭhitāyām vārāṇasyāṃ rājadhanyāṃ | upacitavipulaguṇadravyākaro 'nekaśāstrakalākauśalaprakh[y]ātakīrttiḥ | tyāgadākṣiṇyakṣamādīnām adhiṣṭhānaḥ(!) sakalalokatṛṣṇocchedanakalāsu priyaḥ supriyo nāma bodhisatvaḥ sārthavāho babhūva | (fol. 1r1–2)

Sub-colophons

vadaradvīpajātakaṃ prathamaṃ || ❁ || (fol. 3r)

śaśajātakaṃ caturthaṃ ||   || (fol. 5r)

candraprabhajātakaṃ pañcamaṃ ||   || (fol. 7v)

rūpyāvatījātakaṃ ṣaṣṭhaṃ ||   || (fol. 10r)

mṛgajātakaṃ prathamaṃ ||   || (fol. 13r)

hastijātakaṃ navamaṃ ||   || (fol. 16v)

candrajātakaṃ daśamaṃ ||   || (fol. 19v)

iti mṛgajātakaṃ ||   || (fol. 22v)

iti mayūrajātakaṃ ||   || (fol. 28r)

(foll. 31–37 are missing.)

iti śākyasiṃhas tathāgatajātakaḥ samāptaḥ ||   || (fol. 44r)

End

vibhāti kakubhosūrā(!) nabhasi yāvad uṣṇaprabhaḥ
prabhājaṭilamaṇḍalo hariṇalāñchanaś coditaḥ |
sphuranti katalālayāḥ(!) svabhuvi yāvad avyāhataṃ(!)
surāsuranamaskṛtaṃ sugataśāsanaṃ tiṣṭhatu ||

ity āha bhagavān buddho nanandur bhikṣavo vacaḥ ||
śrutvā sarvve pramodā(ḍhy)ā jagmuḥ sa(tv)āḥ svam ālayaṃ ||

Colophon

iti bodhisatvajātakāvadānamālā samāptā || śubhaṃ || (fol. 46v13)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. B 98/4

Date of Filming not recorded

Exposures 44

Used Copy Kathmandu (scan)

Type of Film positive

Remarks

Catalogued by MD

Date 20-09-2013

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).