Wood cover, original binding.<\/p> Two string holes, 18cm distant from each other.Both the inner covers bear polichrome miniatures, grouped in 5 vignettes for each cover.
1. The Buddha taming the elephant Nālāgiri.<\/p>
2. The monkeys feed the Buddha with honey, while he is living in the forest.<\/p>
3. A Buddhist goddess in dharmacakramudrā<\/i>, surrounded by attendants or disciples.<\/p>
4. The Buddha surrounded by the Hindu gods.<\/p>
5. The parinirvāṇa<\/i> of the Buddha.<\/p><\/li> 1. The birth of the Buddha.<\/p> 2. Victorious over the demonic temptations of Mara, lord of Death, the Buddha calls upon the earth to witness his own enlightment (bhūmisparśamudrā<\/i>).<\/p> 3. The Buddha in dharmacakramudrā<\/i>, surrounded by attendants or disciples.<\/p> 4. The Buddha in dharmacakramudrā<\/i>, surrounded by attendants or disciples (episode to be identified). <\/p> 5. Three Buddhas (past, present and future) in dharmacakramudrā<\/i> share a lotus as their throne (episode to be identified).<\/p><\/li><\/ul>"
},
{
"label": "Origin",
"value": "275 Nepāla / Thursday, March 24th, 1155 CE (Petech 1984: 61-2).NepālPātan."
},
{
"label": "Condition",
"value": "A fragment of the last folio, damaged on the margins and restored with paper."
},
{
"label": "Script",
"value": " The Pañcarakṣā<\/i> corpus (\"Five Protections\") consists of the Mahāpratisarā<\/i>, Mahāmāyūrī<\/i>, Mahāsāhasrapramardanī<\/i>, Mahāmantrānusāriṇī<\/i>, and Mahāśītavatī<\/i>. The earliest evidence for texts grouped together as the \"Five Great Dhāraṇīs\" comes from Tibetan catalogues around 800 CE, but this compendium is somewhat different from the surviving Sanskrit collection, which is preserved in manuscripts dating back to the eleventh century. These scriptures include spells, enumerations of benefits and ritual instructions for use. With the course of time all of them became deified and five related goddesses emerged. It is, however, important to note that the texts themselves do not have any references to these goddesses. This manuscript consists of just a fragment of the last folio, and of original wooden covers bearing extremly refined illuminations with episodes of Buddhist religious history. However, the two covers most probably belonged to another manuscript, since the distance between the two string holes is ca. 14 cm in the fragment and 18 cm in the covers. According to the colophon, the manuscript was written 275 Nepāla Saṃvat, i.e. 1155 CE, in the Hnogal Tol in Pātan (śrīlalitabrumāyāṃ śrīhnāgalaṭolke<\/i> in the manuscript) (\"Hnogal Tol is the same as the Nogalasthāna [...] in the Sundhara<\/i>(!)<\/i> ward in Patan\", Petech 1984: 62). After the colophon, a note in Newarī language and Nepālākṣarā script has been added by a previous owner of the manuscript, with the date 812 Nepāla Saṃvat, i.e. 1692 CE, given in the bhūtasaṅkhyā<\/i> system (samvat netram eka mātrikā<\/i>). <\/p>"
},
{
"label": "Date of Creation",
"value": "275 Nepāla / Thursday, March 24th, 1155 CE (Petech 1984: 61-2)."
},
{
"label": "Title",
"value": "Pañcarakṣā"
},
{
"label": "Author(s) of the Record",
"value": "Daniele Cuneo and Camillo Formigatti, CUDL PID Workflow"
},
{
"label": "Material",
"value": "Palm leaf. Folio height: 5.7 (restored) cm, width: 42.7 (restored) cm. <\/p>"
},
{
"label": "Classmark",
"value": "MS Or.130"
},
{
"label": "Donor(s)",
"value": "Bendall, Cecil"
},
{
"label": "Subject(s)",
"value": "Manuscripts, Sanskrit; Bauddha; Bauddha Tantra; Dhāraṇī"
},
{
"label": "Format",
"value": "Tālapatra"
},
{
"label": "Data Source(s)",
"value": "Direct inspection."
},
{
"label": "Language(s)",
"value": "Sanskrit."
},
{
"label": "Layout",
"value": " 3 lines, approximately 80 akṣara<\/i>s per line.<\/p> Akṣara height: 4 mm. Interlinear space height: 2 mm. Two string holes, now closed by the restoration with paper. in the middle of a column-like blank space. String hole space height: 1.5 cm, width: 1.5 cm, depth: 14.5 cm."
},
{
"label": "Author(s)",
"value": "\u200fUnknown"
},
{
"label": "Bibliography",
"value": " Descriptions of the manuscript<\/b><\/p> Manuscripts<\/b><\/p>