Manuscripts from Indian Collection

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

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early illustrated manuscript of excellent workmanship.
Lent by the Prince of Wales Museum of Western India, Bombay.
KAMMAVACHA
(A Pali Buddhist text)
16 copper plates; size 55x10 cm; Siamese script; Pali.
Begins:
Ends:
Namo tassa bhagavato arahato sammāsambuddhassa pathamam upajjhamh gähäpetabbo upajjham gähäpetvä pattachivaram achikkhitabbam.
Sammata samghena itthannämassa bhikkuno nissayamutta
sammuti.
khamati samghassa tasmā tunhi evam etam dharayāmīti...
10 illustrations, good examples of Thai art of the middle period (c. 14th century A.D.).
Lent by the Adyar Library and Research Centre, Adyar (Madras).
UPADEŠAMĀLA WITH COMMENTARY
(A poem containing moral instructions for laymen and nuns)
Foll. 2-231; size 30.8 x 11 cm; paper; Devanagarl script; 15 lines to
a page; text in Prakrit; commentary in Sanskrit; dated Samvat 1457 (A.D. 1400). Author: Dharmadasagani; scribe: Rāmāka.
Ends:
इत्याचार्य श्री उदयप्रभसूरिदेवसंघटितायां उपदेशकणिकायां विशेषवृत्तो तृतीय: परिवेषः संपूर्णः । ग्रं० ३७१४ एतावता संपूर्णा उपदेशमालायाः कणिकाख्यविशेषवृत्तिरिति ॥ छ ॥ आदितो ग्रन्थानं १२३७४ ।। शिवमस्तु ।।
Colophon स्वस्ति श्री नृपविक्रमकालातीत (1) १४५७ श्रावणवदि १२ शनौ श्रद्य ह श्रीमद्दन हिलरेनगरे वापत रामाकेन धीउपदेशमालाविशेषवृत्तितिखिता ॥ Two illustrations in Western Indian style; commentary unpublished.
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