B 100-10 Vīrakuśāvadāna

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: B 100/10
Title: Vīrakuśāvadāna
Dimensions: 36 x 9.5 cm x 31 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: unknown
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Avadāna; Bauddha
Date:
Acc No.: NAK 4/1388
Remarks: AN?

Reel No. B 100-10

Inventory No. 87284

Title Vīrakuśāvadāna

Remarks a part of the Vratāvadānamālā

Author

Subject Bauddha, Avadāna

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Newari

Material paper

State complete

Size 36 x 9.5 cm

Binding Hole(s) none

Folios 31

Lines per Folio 7

Foliation numerals in the lower right-hand margin of the verso

Scribe -

Date of Copying -

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 4/1388

Manuscript Features

Title vīrakusāvadān is written in the left margin of fol. 1r; rāmaśrīratna in the upper left-hand margin of fol. 1r.

The text appears to be the same as B 100-4.

Excerpts

Beginning

(fol. 1r1) ❖ namo ratnatrayāya ||   ||

natvā triratnaṃ jagadekaratnaṃ

†sāpunyapāśaṃ† karuṇāmayaṃ ca

guruṃ mahat-jñānapradaṃ pravakṣye

'ṣṭamīvrataṃ tan mahimānan(!) uttamaṃ

gu(2)rubhaṭṭārakaṃ jayaśriyaṃ bhikṣāga(!)nānte yogānte dharmmāsanaṣṭham apṛcchad aṣṭamīmāhātmyam āryyāvalokiteśvaramukhyāṣṭamīdivase jinaśrīḥ saśiṣyaḥ śrāvaya(3)satyāc(!) chuklāṣṭamīmāhātmyam adyāṣṭamīparvaṇi guro ||   ||

jayaśrībhikṣur āha śrūyatāṃ bho || gurubhaṭṭārakopadeśaṃ yathā kathayāmīti ||

End

a(fol. 31r2)tha śakro devānām indraḥ sārddham anekaiḥ devaputrasahasraiḥ svāgatādibhir anvamodayad āha ca

virūpo yaṃ mahīpālaḥ sundarīballabho priyaḥ

virū(3)patvān mumurṣu[r] yo mahāhradam upācarat

lohitamuktāvalī kvayam(!) ity uktavatīndre svātmajasyopavāsakuśasya haste ity uktvāryāvaloki(4)kiteśvaraḥ kutreti pṛṣṭe sukhāvatīṃ pratyāgamat tata āryāṣṭāṃgopoṣitas tvam asīti tāṃ strīn mandāramālābhir amṛtena divyabhojanena ca (5) divyālaṃkāravāsobhir upoṣadhapūrvābhidhānaṃ tam arcayām āsa mahendraḥ atha kecit sumupoṣitāḥ sukhamṛtāś cakravarttipadaṃ kecid divyaṃ padaṃ (6) kecit sukhāvatī tathāgataṃ bhaikṣukaṃ śrāvakayānikaṃ pratyekayānikaṃ mahāyānikaṃ bodhisātvikaṃ samavāpnuvan svasvakāmunātaḥ(!)

upavāsakuśaś cakravarttī pitṛśāsanam ādhāyāṣṭamīm upāsya māhīndraṃ padaṃ mahotsavato dhyatiṣṭhat

Colophon

(fol. 31r7) iti śrīvratamālāyām aśokopaguptabhāṣitāyām aṣṭamī(v1)māhātmye vīrakuśāvadānaṃ samāptā(!)     śubhaṃ

Microfilm Details

Reel No. B 100-10

Date of Filming not recorded

Exposures 38

Used Copy Kathmandu (scan)

Type of Film positive

Remarks Two exposures of fols. 16v-17r and 22v-23r; three exposures of fols. 26v-27r

Catalogued by MD

Date 26. Nov. 2012

Bibliography

• Okano, Kiyoshi: http://homepage3.nifty.com/indology/vratavadanamala.html