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This manuscript belongs to a different line of transmission than CUL Add.1611<\/a>, on which the text edited by Speyer is based (Add.1680.2 \"is the only source independent from B\" (Demoto 2006: 208); see also Speyer 1902: CIII-CVII: \"the Avadānaśataka text rests on one MS, the Cambridge Add.1611 [...] The other three MSS I have collated, CDP have been copied from it \".) <\/p><\/div><\/div>"
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"label": "Data Source(s)",
"value": "Bendall (1883: 168), Speyer (1902: CVI-CVII), direct inspection."
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"label": "Language(s)",
"value": "Sanskrit."
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{
"label": "Author(s)",
"value": "\u200fUnknown."
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{
"label": "Alternative Title(s)",
"value": "Śatakāvadāna"
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{
"label": "Binding",
"value": " Cardboard box, library binding.<\/p> The manuscript is kept in a cardboard box together with other palm-leaf fragmentary manuscripts (see Bendall 1883: 167-71); each single fragment or bundle of fragments is wrapped in a paper sheet with the classmark written in pencil.<\/p>"
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"value": "Incomplete, worm-eaten and with frayed margins; traces of modern restoration."
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"value": " The Avadānaśataka<\/i> is an ancient collection of Buddhist legends, its first redaction dating to the first centuries of the CE. It was translated into Chinese and Tibetan during the first millennium CE, gaining large popularity across Asia. This Nepalese incomplete palm-leaf manuscript consists of one single folio containing the second half of the Anāthapiṇḍadāvadāna<\/i>, the thirty-ninth story in the collection. The verso, numbered 18, contains only four lines and ends with the final rubric of this avadāna<\/i>. In Add. 1611<\/a>, the Anāthapiṇḍadāvadāna<\/i> is already a short story, and in the recension represented in this manuscript the longer formulaic passages are absent (Formigatti 2016). It is therefore probable that the manuscript contained other avadāna<\/i>s. This folio is part of a bundle of nine folios possibly from four different manuscripts, containing parts of five stories from the Avadānaśataka<\/i>. They were used by Speyer for his edition of the Avadānaśataka<\/i> and were given the siglum F. A complete diplomatic transcription of this fragment is provided in the section \"View more options.\"<\/p><\/p>"
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"label": "Title",
"value": "Avadānaśataka"
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{
"label": "Author(s) of the Record",
"value": "Camillo Formigatti"
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"label": "Material",
"value": "Palm leaf (Corypha). Folio height: ca 5 cm, width: ca 32 cm. <\/p>"
},
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"label": "Layout",
"value": " 6 lines on the recto, approximately 64 akṣara<\/i>s per line.<\/p> One string hole approximately in the center of a square space. The manuscript is very carefully written, the lines and the written area are very regular, even without marginal frame lines and without ruling.<\/p>"
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"label": "Date of Acquisition",
"value": "December 1875 (ULIB 7/3/55)."
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"label": "Foliation",
"value": " 1. Original: Nepālākṣarā numerals, mid-right margin, verso.<\/p>"
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