{ "viewingDirection": "left-to-right", "metadata": [ { "label": "Origin Place", "value": "Suratibindira." }, { "label": "Provenance", "value": "Bought by Prof. C. Bendall in 1898-9." }, { "label": "Extent", "value": "8 ff." }, { "label": "Funding", "value": "AHRC" }, { "label": "Date of Creation", "value": "1797 Vikrama / 1740 CE." }, { "label": "Classmark", "value": "MS Or.117" }, { "label": "Additions", "value": "
Marginalia<\/b><\/p> Paper sleeve, original binding. Cardboard cover, library binding.<\/p>"
},
{
"label": "Condition",
"value": "Complete, in generally good condition."
},
{
"label": "Script",
"value": " Scribe:<\/b>Lakṣmīvijaya.<\/p><\/div><\/div>"
},
{
"label": "Excerpts",
"value": " The Vasudhāradhāraṇī<\/i>, dedicated to Vasudhārā, the bodhisattva<\/i> of wealth, prosperity, and abundance (who has a strong following among the Newar Buddhists of the Kathmandu valley), is taught by the Buddha in Kauśāmbī to the rich merchant and layman Sucandra. He has been reduced to poverty and so requests a sermon from the Lord so that he may provide for his own family and so that all beings may become prosperous. This scripture includes a dhāraṇī<\/i> along with enumerations of benefits and ritual instructions for use. As testified also by this paper manuscript, dated 1740 CE and clearly written in a jaina scriptorium, the Buddhist Vasudhāradhāraṇī<\/i> is a text in use also within Jainism (See Jaini 1968). <\/p>"
},
{
"label": "Title",
"value": "Vasudhārādhāraṇī"
},
{
"label": "Author(s) of the Record",
"value": "Daniele Cuneo and Camillo Formigatti"
},
{
"label": "Material",
"value": "Paper. Folio height: 11.5 cm, width: 26.3 cm. <\/p>"
},
{
"label": "Layout",
"value": "Written area height: 8.5 cm, width: 20.5 cm. 11 lines per page, approximately 31 akṣara<\/i>s per line.<\/p> Akṣara height: 6 mm. Interlinear space height: 2.5 mm. One string-hole shaped blank space. Triple marginal frame lines in red ink. Rubrics and daṇḍa<\/i>s in red ink. The numerals of the foliation are inscribed in a square in red ink.<\/p>"
},
{
"label": "Foliation",
"value": " 1. Original: Jaina Devanāgāri numerals, bottom right margin, verso.<\/p>"
},
{
"label": "Bibliography",
"value": " Descriptions of the manuscript<\/b><\/p> Manuscripts<\/b><\/p>