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MS. Sansk. d. 35

MSS. Sansk. d.

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Two Prajñāpāramitāhṛdayasūtras, Uṣṇīṣavijaya Dhāraṇī, and a short Dhāraṇī, A. D. 1880.

Contents

Language(s): Sanskrit.

Physical Description

Form: pothī
Support: Japanese transparent paper.
Extent: ii + 21 + xvi
Dimensions (binding): 23.8 × 18.1 cm.

Hand(s)

nos. 1, 2, and 4 are in the alphabet of the Hōriuzi palm-leaf MSS.

History

Origin: A. D. 1880.

Date and Scribes: copied by K. Kanematsu and Y. Ota, in June and July, 1880, and sent to Professor F. Max Müller by the Eastern Hongwanzi, in Kioto, in October, 1880.

Provenance and Acquisition

MS. Sansk. d. 35(1) [fols 2-4v]

Contents

the Prajñāpāramitāhṛdayasūtra.

Language(s): Sanskrit

MS. Sansk. d. 35(2) [fols 5-7v]

Contents

the Uṣṇīṣavijaya Dhāraṇī, followed by a table of the Sanskrit alphabet, headed ‘Siddham.’

Language(s): Sanskrit

MS. Sansk. d. 35(3) [fols 9]

Contents

a short Dhāraṇī, called ‘Son-ahio-ahio-shin-zu’ or ‘honourable-excellent-amall-mind-dhāraṇī,’ written like Chineae.

Language(s): Sanskrit

MS. Sansk. d. 35(4) [fols 11-20v]

Contents

the larger text of the Prajñāpāramitāhṛdayasūtra.

Language(s): Sanskrit

Additional Information

Record Sources

Summary description abbreviated from the following sources:
Winternitz and Keith, Catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts, no. 1452 (1–4), p. 263

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. 1452 (1–4), p. 263

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