Manuscripts from Indian Collection

Author(s): National Museum New Delhi
Publisher: National Museum New Delhi

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B.
C,
Rev. C,
1. panneshu kechid...panna... 2..p(ra)tijñā
4..kuśalamülaṁ....
2..sattitma...
3..daŝayati yena..di-karme
Terms, like mahäyäna, kušalamula and hetuvädin show that the manuscript was Buddhist.
Ends:
The manuscript was discovered at Taxila by Sir John Marshall.
Lent by the National Museum, New Delhi.
BHAISHAJYAGURU-VAIDŪRYAPRABHASOTRA (A Buddhist religious text)
Foll. one; size 38.5x6.5 cm; birch-bark; Gupta script of the 5th-6th century A.D.; 6 lines on each side of the leaf; Sanskrit.
Begins :
Bhaishajyaguruvaiḍūryaprabhasya dheyam śrutam bhavishyati.
imam
sūtraratnam dharayishyati tasya bhaishajyaguruvaidüryaprabhasya tathāgatasya.
Lent by the National Archives of India, New Delhi.
tathāgatasya nāma
FRAGMENTS OF PRAJÑĀPĀRAMITĀ MANUSCRIPT
FROM CENTRAL ASIA
(A Buddhist religious text)
4
bhagavato
Four leaves; size 25.4x23.5 cm; paper; Gupta script of the 6th century A.D.; Sanskrit.