MS. Sansk. c. 38 (R)

MSS. Sansk. c.

NOTE: This record has yet to be fully checked.

Facsimiles of three Japanese Palm-leaf MSS., A. D. 1880.

Summary of Contents: A second facsimile of the palm-leaf MS. of the monastery Hōriuzi, containing the Prajñapāramitāhṛdayasūtra and Uṣṇīṣavijayadhāraṇī, d

Language(s): Sanskrit.

A facsimile of the palm-leaf MS. of the monastery of Raikōzi, near the Biwa lake, in the province of Ōmi, Japan.

A facsimile of the palm-leaf MS. of the monastery of Hōriuzi, in the province of Yamato, Japan. lt contains the parts of the Prajñāpāramitāhṛdayasūtra, and of the Uṣṇīṣavijayadhāraṇī (two pages with seven lines each)

A facsimile of the palm-leaf MS. of the monastery of Onziozi, near the Biwa lake, Japan. It contains on two pages (six lines each), some portions of short Mantras; namaḥ samantabuddhānāṃ being repeated several times.

Physical Description

Form: pothī

Support: Paper.

Extent: ii + 2 + ix

Dimensions (binding): 38.7 × 22.2 cm.

Hand(s)

Similar to that of the Hōriuzi palm-leaf MSS.

History

Origin: A. D. 1880.

Date of facsimile: A. D. 1880.

Provenance and Acquisition

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:

Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 1423 (1–3), pp. 247-248

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. 1423 (1–3), pp. 247-248

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