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MS. Sansk. d. 29

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Vajracchedikā, A.D. 1880.

Contents

The Vajracchedikā, or Vajracchedikāprajñāpāramitāsūtra.

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Incipit: o namaḥ sarvajñāya ǁ evaṃ mayā śrutam ekasmiṃ samaye | &c.
Explicit: Vajracchedikā prajñāpāramitā traṃ: samāptaṃ.

Physical Description

Form: pothī
Support: Japanese transparent paper.
Extent: ii + 59 + xxx
Dimensions (binding): 23.8 × 16.5 cm.

Hand(s)

Similar to that of the Hōriuzi palm-leaf MSS.

History

Origin: A. D. 1880.

Date and Scribe: this copy seems to have been made by Mr. Kaishin Kurehito, of the monastery of Kōkizi, and sent to Professor F. Max Müller by Mr. Satow. See Bunyiu Nanjio, l. c.

Provenance and Acquisition

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:
Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 1436, p. 253

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. 1436, p. 253

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