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MS. Sansk. d. 30

MSS. Sansk. d.

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Samantabhadrapraṇidhāna, A.D. 1880.

Contents

The Samantabhadrapraṇidhāna, or Samantabhadracarīstotra (= Fu-gen-gio-gwan-san in Chinese)

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Incipit: : vajrasatva mahāsatva vajrasa tathāgata samantabhadra | o nama samantabhadrāya | yāvata hecidaśaddiśi loke sarvatriyedhvagatanārasiṃhāḥ tān āhu vaddamisarvi aśeṣāṃ kāya tu vācam anena prasattaḥ | &c.
Explicit: bhadracarī nāmāryasamantabhadrapraṇidhānaṃ samaptaṃ … namaḥ stryidhīvīkānaṃ tathāgatānāṃ oṃ aśuvaravehadī svāhā | º … namas tryidhivikānāṃ tathāgatānāṃ oṃ samantagānūne indrajaṇaya svāha ǁ

Physical Description

Form: pothī
Support: Japanese transparent paper.
Extent: iv + 23 + xxv
Dimensions (binding): 26.7 × 18.1 cm.

Hand(s)

similar to the alphabet of the Hōriuzi palm-leaf MSS.

History

Origin: A. D. 1880.

Date and Scribe: copied by a Japanese priest, Kaigon Fugimura, of the monastery of Nyogwanzi, in July, 1880, and sent by Mr. E. Satow to Professor F. Max Müller.

Provenance and Acquisition

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:
Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 1443, pp. 255-256

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. 1443, pp. 255-256

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