MS. sansk. a. 8 (R)
MSS. Sansk. a.
NOTE: This record has yet to be fully checked.
Pañcarakṣā, 11th cent.?
Contents
The Pañcarakṣā, a collection of Buddhist charms
Language(s): Sanskrit.
The Mahāsāhasrapramardanī
Incipit: namo bhagavatyai āryyasahasrapramardanyai | evaṃ mayā śrutaṃ bhagavān Rājagṛhe viharati sma Gṛdhrakuṭāparvate dakṣiṇe pārśve | &c.
Explicit: āryamahāsāhasrapramardanī nāma mahāyānasūtraṃ parisamāptaḥ | namo vuddhayā namo dharmāya namo saṅghāya |
The Mahāmāyūrī
Incipit: namaḥ sarvavuddhavodhisattvebhyo ’rhadbhyaḥ samyakṣamvuddhebhyo ’tītānāgatapratyutpannebhyaḥ
Explicit: asyā Mahāmāyūryā vidyārājñyā ayaṃ pracāraḥ |
The Mahāśītavatī
Incipit: namo bhagavatyai Mahāśītavatyai | evaṃ mayā śrutam bhagavān Rājagṛhe viharati sma | Sitavane mahāśmaśāne | ibhikāyatane (so apparently) pratyuddeśe | &c.
Explicit: āryamahāśitavatl nāma daṇḍadhāraṇī vidyārājñī parisamāpta |
The Mahāpratisarā
Incipit: namaḥ sarvavuddhavodhisattvebhyaḥ |
Explicit: āryamahāpratisarā mahāvidyārājñī parisamāpta | namo vuddhāya | namo dharmāya | namo dharmāya |
The Mahāmantrānusāriṇī
Incipit: namaḥ sarvavuddhavodhisattvānāṃ | evaṃ mayā śrutaṃ | &c.
Explicit: mahātantra | Mahāmantrānusāriṇī mahāvidyārājñī samāptam iti | ye dharma heluprabhāvā hetu teṣāṃ tathāgato | &c.
Physical Description
Form: pothī
Support: In the older part palm-leaves, in the new part paper, yellow on recto, red on verso, held together by two pieces of cardboard and a string passing through two holes.
Extent: 92 + i
Dimensions (leaf): 52.7 × 204 cm.
Condition
The MS. has been mutilated, but the missing portions have been supplied by a later hand, viz. ff. 1–15 (= present ff. 1–16), 64, 65, 87–89 (= present ff. 86–89). Part of the original f. 87 is still preserved; the MS. is fairly accurate.
Hand(s)
Nepalese for both old and new. The new is evidently an imitation of the old, and is not very successful.
History
Origin: 11th cent.?
Dr. Hoernle assigns it to the 11th cent. It may be a good deal later (14th cent.?). The new part is quite modern.
Record Sources
Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:
Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 1448, p. 259
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. 1448, p. 259
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