{ "viewingDirection": "left-to-right", "metadata": [ { "label": "Origin Place", "value": "Nepāl." }, { "label": "Provenance", "value": "Bought in Nepāl by Prof. C. Bendall in 1898-9." }, { "label": "Extent", "value": "14 ff." }, { "label": "Funding", "value": "AHRC" }, { "label": "Date of Creation", "value": "243 Nepāla / April 28th, 1123 CE." }, { "label": "Classmark", "value": "MS Or.142.1" }, { "label": "Donor(s)", "value": "Bendall, Cecil" }, { "label": "Additions", "value": "
On the inner side of the front cover<\/a>, two notes in Nepālākṣarā characters: [<\/i>oṃ oṃ rata<\/i>]<\/i><\/i> and oṃ ratakaraṁṇḍaka | <\/i>. <\/div>
On the inner side of the back cover<\/a>, a date of recitation in Nepālākṣarā characters: ≀ samvat_ 555 jeṣṭhaśuddhi 4 udānaraṃtamanaśibhāśacanakālāṃñ maja 7 vānaśvaśyaṃ jaroṃ [<\/i>-4-<\/i>]<\/i><\/i> . <\/div><\/div>" }, { "label": "Subject(s)", "value": "Manuscripts, Sanskrit; Bauddha; Bauddha Tantra; Dhāraṇī" }, { "label": "Associated Name(s)", "value": "Śivadeva; Rudākarasiṃha" }, { "label": "Format", "value": "Tālapatra" }, { "label": "Data Source(s)", "value": "Direct inspection." }, { "label": "Language(s)", "value": "Sanskrit." }, { "label": "Author(s)", "value": "\u200fUnknown" }, { "label": "Alternative Title(s)", "value": "Vasudhāraṇī; Vasudhārādhāraṇīsūtra" }, { "label": "Binding", "value": "

Wood cover, original binding.<\/p> One string hole, on the left side of the manuscript." }, { "label": "Condition", "value": "Complete, damaged. Margins are often broken off in many folios, often with loss of text. Sometimes worm-eaten. The writing is sometimes faded, sometimes scratched away. The miniatures are extremely damaged." }, { "label": "Script", "value": "

Pāla in black ink.<\/div><\/div>" }, { "label": "Excerpts", "value": "
Rubric:<\/b> [1v1]<\/a>≀ oṃ namo bhagavatyai āryavasudhārāyai || ◎ yā sasmṛtys suvira[<\/i>-2-<\/i>]<\/i><\/i>[miniature<\/i>]<\/i>[<\/i>-11-<\/i>]<\/i>[1v2]ritaṃ samate narāṇāṃ | tvaṃ kalpavṛkṣasa¦◎ṭṭaśīvasudhārasaṃjñā bhaktyā <\/i>[miniature<\/i>]<\/i>[<\/i>-10-<\/i>]<\/i>[1v3]tāya || kalpoditena vidhinā paripaśya¦◎mānā yā dhārami vividha<\/i>[miniature<\/i>]<\/i>ratnasuvarṇṇa[<\/i>mayyā | pūrṇṇaṃ<\/i>]<\/i>[<\/i>-2-<\/i>]<\/i>[1v4]mi bhuvanaṃ sahasaiva sarvaṃ tāṃ sarvaloka¦◎ja[<\/i>-1-<\/i>]<\/i>[<\/i>praṇamāmi bhaktyā ||<\/i>]<\/i><\/i>[miniature<\/i>]<\/i><\/div>
Incipit:<\/b> [1v4]<\/a> evam mayā śruta kasmin<\/i>(!)<\/i> sama[1v5]ye bhagavān_ kausāmbyām mahānagaryyā◎ vihara[<\/i>-6-<\/i>]<\/i><\/i>[miniature<\/i>]<\/i>jñāke mahāvanavare ghosila[1v6]lāme mahatā mahābhikṣusaṃghena sārddhaṃ pañca¦◎[<\/i>-10-<\/i>]<\/i><\/i>[miniature<\/i>]<\/i>laiś ca mahāśrāvakair asakhye[2r1]<\/a>[<\/i>-17-<\/i>]<\/i>gataiḥ |¦¦<\/i>[miniature<\/i>]<\/i><\/div>
Incipit, section:<\/b> [2r1]<\/a> tena khalu punaḥ samaye¦[2r2]na kausāmbyāmahānagaryāṃ sucandro [<\/i>gṛ◎hapatiḥ<\/i>]<\/i> prativasati¦<\/i>[miniature<\/i>]<\/i> sma ||<\/div>
Explicit:<\/b> [13v4]<\/a> ida◎m avocad bhagavān āttama¦<\/i>[miniature<\/i>]<\/i>nā āyuṣmān ānandas te ca¦[13v5] bhikṣava<\/i>(!)<\/i> bodhisatvāḥ sā ca sarvāvatī ◎ parṣat_ sadevamānuṣāsura<\/i>[miniature<\/i>]<\/i>gandharvaś ca loko bhagavato [13v6] bhāṣitam abhyanandan iti || ❈ || <\/div>
Final Rubric:<\/b> [13v6]<\/a> ā¦◎ryavasudhārā nāma dhāra¦<\/i>[miniature<\/i>]<\/i>ṇī samāptā ḥ ||   \u2020 ||<\/div>
Colophon:<\/b> [14r1]<\/a> ye dharmā hetuprabhāvā hetun teṣān tathāga¦◎to hy avadat teṣā<\/i>(!)<\/i> ca yo ni¦<\/i>[miniature<\/i>]<\/i>[<\/i>r.<\/i>]<\/i>[<\/i>-9-<\/i>]<\/i>[14r2]ḥ || deyadharmo 'yaṃ pravaramahāyānayā¦◎yinaḥ paramopāsaka¦<\/i>[miniature<\/i>]<\/i>rudākarasi[<\/i>ṃ<\/i>]<\/i>hasya tasya ca¦ [14r3] bhūdeyirāṇikāyā yad atra puṇyan tad bhava¦◎tv ācāryopādhyāyamātā¦<\/i>[miniature<\/i>]<\/i>pitṛpūrvaṃgamaṃ kṛtvā [<\/i>saka¦<\/i>]<\/i>[14r4]lasatvarāśer anuttaraphalāvāptaya i◎ti |¦ parameśvaraparamabha<\/i>[miniature<\/i>]<\/i>ṭṭārakamahārājādhi[<\/i>rā¦<\/i>]<\/i>[14r5]jaśrīsivadevarājye samvat_ ā 43 jyeṣṭadine śuklapratipad <\/i>[miniature<\/i>]<\/i> likhitam idaṃ lekhaka[<\/i>-2-<\/i>]<\/i>[14r6][<\/i>-2-<\/i>]<\/i>nati |¦ subham astu jagat_ sarvaṃ || ◎ namo buddhāya || namo dharmā<\/i>[miniature<\/i>]<\/i>ya ¦| namaḥ saṃghāya || ❈ || <\/div>" }, { "label": "Physical Location", "value": "Cambridge University Library" }, { "label": "Abstract", "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. This illuminated palm-leaf manuscript, dated 1123 CE and written under the reign of Śivadeva, is one of the earliest extant manuscripts of the Vasudhāradhāraṇī<\/i>. According to the colophon, it was commissioned by a pious Buddhist layman, Rudākarasiṃha by name, as a meritorious gift (deyadharmo 'yaṃ pravaramahāyānayāyinaḥ paramopāsakarudākarasiṃhasya<\/i>).<\/p>" }, { "label": "Title", "value": "Vasudhārādhāraṇī" }, { "label": "Author(s) of the Record", "value": "Daniele Cuneo, Camillo Formigatti and Gergely Hidas., CUDL PID Workflow" }, { "label": "Material", "value": "Palm leaf.

Folio height: ca. 5 cm, width: 27.5 cm. <\/p>" }, { "label": "Decoration", "value": "Four polichrome miniatures, now extremely damaged and consequently hard to identify, of approximately 6 cm in width, put in the right hand side of the page.