A 39-20 Mahāyānasūtraratnaketuparivarta

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: A 39/20
Title: Mahāyānasūtraratnaketuparivarta
Dimensions: 33.5 x 5 cm x 6 folios
Material: palm-leaf
Condition:
Scripts: Transitional Gupta
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Bauddha; Bauddha
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 3/737
Remarks: A 1169/2- A 1170/2; A 1166/4

Reel No. A 39-20

Title Ratnaketuparivarta (fragments)

Remarks Retakes are in A 1169-2 Ratnaketuparivarta. A 1170-2 Ratnaketuparivarta, and A 1166-4 Ratnaketuparivarta.

Subject Bauddhasūtra

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Gilgit/Bamiyan

Material Palm-leaf

State Damaged and fragmentary

Size 33.5 x 5 cm

Folios 6

Lines per Folio 5–6

Foliation Left margin middle figures

Date of Copying

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 3-737

Manuscript Features

Exposures 2 to 6 top and 7 bottom to 8 belong to the Ratnaketuparivarta. The folio photographed in exp. 6 bottom and 7 top belong to another unidentified text. Written in 5th to 6th century script primarily found in the Gilgit manuscript collection. Note however that Cecil Bendall photographed this manuscript in 1889 and his report was published in 1890 some forty years before the discovery of the Gilgit manuscript collection. De la vallée Poussin published a transcript of this manuscript in 1908. Lora Sander attributes this script to the 6th century in the common era.

Excerpts

exp. 2 1 ++dh///āraṇīmudrāpadaprabhedapraveśavyākaraṇ. yām eva. bahuguṇaka(rāṃ eva) .. c. .tya(dharmaguṇasamanvā)gatā sa(rva)dharm(ānu).. .. .. .. .. .. .. 2 vad upaśamakarīṃ deśayatu bhagavaṃs taṃ vajradharmasamatāpratītyadharmahṛdayasamucchrayavidhvaṃsanīṃ dhāraṇīmudrāpadaprabhedapraveśavyākaraṇī///+ 3 sarvamārabalapramardanakarīṃ yāvad anupadhiśeṣe nirvāṇadhātau parinirvāpaṇīṃ bahujanahitāya bahujanasukhāya lokānukaṃpāyai mahato 4 janakāyasyārthāya hitāya sukhāya devamanuṣyāṇāṃ athā te buddhā bhagavanta<ḥ>s tān bodhisatvān evamāhuḥ vayam api kulaputrās tāṃ sahāṃ lo 5 kadhātuṃ gamiṣyāmo yatra sa śākyamunis tathāgato viharaty arhān{} samyaksaṃbuddhaḥ ye pi daśasu dikṣu buddhā bhagavanta etarhi tiṣṭhanti yāpa 6 ///.........bodhisattvagaṇaparivṛtāḥ sa śrāvakasaṃghapuraskṛtāḥ tāṃ sahāṃ lo

Microfilm Details

Reel No. A 39-20

Date of Filming 25 September 1970

Exposures 9

Used Copy Berlin

Type of Film Positive

Remarks

Catalogued by KH

Date 23 February 2011

Bibliography

• Cecil Bendall (1900). Nepal MSS. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, (Apr., 1900), pp. 345-347.
• Louis De La Vallée Poussin Source (1908). MSS. Cecil Bendall. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, (Jan., 1908), pp. 45-53.
• Lora Sander (1985). Remarks on the Formal Brahmi Script of Gilgit, Bamiyan, and Khotan. Journal of Central Asia, (Jul., 1985), pp. 69–92.