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Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā, 18th cent.?

Contents

The Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā, in thirty-two parivartas

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Incipit: 1 oṃ namo bhagavatyai āryyai Prajñāpāramitāyai ǁ nirvvikalpe namas tubhyaṃ Prajñāpāramite ’mite | yā tvaṃ sarvvān vandyāṅgī niravadyair nnirīkṣase ǁ &c.
Explicit: sadevamānuṣāsuragandharvvaś ca loko bhagavato bhāṣitam abhyanandann iti ǁ āryyāṣṭasahasrikāyāṃ Prajñāpāramitāyāṃ parindanāma parwartto nāma dvātriṃśatamaḥ ǁ 39 ǁ samāptā ceyaṃ bhagavaty āryyāṣṭasahasrikā Prajñāpāramitā sarvvatathāgatajanani | sarvvavodhisatvapratyekavuddhaśrāvakāṇāṃ ca mātā dharmmamudrā dharmmolkā dharmmanābhi dharmmabheri dharmmanetrī dharmmaratnanidhānaṃ | akṣayo dharmmakośo dharmmacintyānbhūtadarśananakṣatramālā | sarvvasukhahetunā iti ǁ sadevamānuṣāsuragandharvvaś ca loko bhagavato bhāṣitaprajñāpāramitā samyak guhyaparā vāpya ca dhārayitvā pravarttānāṃ viharantu sadārthina iti ǁ ǁ ye dharmmā hetuprabhāvā hetu teṣāṃ tathāgata hy avadat teṣāñ ca yo nirodha evaṃvādi mahāśramaṇaḥ ǁ

Physical Description

Form: pothī
Support: Paper.
Extent: + +
Dimensions (binding): 40.0 × 15.2 cm.

Hand(s)

Devanāgarī.

History

Origin: 18th cent.?

probably about the middle of the 18th cent.

Provenance and Acquisition

the following entries are found on f. 1 of 137: (1) ‘W. Jones the Gift of Captain Kirkpatrick 15 Nov. 1793.’ (2) ‘S. H. Lewin to W. H. Mill, D.D., December 1838.’

The collections of William Hodge Mill were purchased by the Bodleian Library in 1849 and 1858.

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:
Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 1427, pp. 249-250

Availability

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Bibliography

    Printed descriptions:

    Moriz Winternitz and Arthur Berriedale Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts in the Bodleian Library (Oxford, 1905), no. 1427, pp. 249-250

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