Manuscripts from Indian Collection

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

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An almost similar manuscript copied in the fifth year of the same king is now in the Cambridge University Library.
Lent by the Asiatic Society, Calcutta.
ASHȚASĀHASRIKĀ PRAJNĀPĀRAMITĀ
(A Buddhist religious text) Foll. 178; size 55x6.7 cm; palm-leaf; Devanagari script; 6 lines to a page; Sanskrit.
20 illustrations on four folios and two painted covers in Pāla style of the 10th - 11th century A.D.
Lent by the Bharat Kala Bhavan, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi.
SĀRATAMĀ PRAJÑĀPĀRAMITĀ TIKĀ (Condensed version of the Prajñāpāramitā with commentary)
Foll. 72 ; size 58x6 cm; palm-leaf'; Newari script; 6 to 7 lines to a page ; Sanskrit. Author : Ratnākaraśānti (teacher of Atisa, A.D. 9821054).
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यतोऽस्याम् श्रुतसमाधिनिश्रितोमहान् । धर्मावभागस्तस्मात् प्रभाकरी ॥ यतोऽस्यां वो(बो)धिपक्षः......दहनं तस्मात् ॥ परीन्दनाभिधायी परिवर्तः परीन्दनापरिवर्तः ।। ......ये धर्मा हेतुप्रभवा हेतुन्तेषान्तथागतोह्यवदतेषाञ्च यो निरोध एवं वादी महाश्रमणः ।। १ सम्वत्........३ राज्ञः श्रीहर्षदेवराजः श्रीगण्डिगुल्मविषये कुलपुत्रकायस्थः पण्डित श्रीजीवधरशि(सिं)हस्य पुस्तकोयमिति (पुस्तकमिदमिति)।
The manuscript originally belonged to a sāky Monastery in Central
Jain Education Intemational