B 90-15 Maitreyavyākaraṇamahāyānasūtra

Manuscript culture infobox

Filmed in: B 90/15
Title: Maitreyavyākaraṇamahāyānasūtra
Dimensions: 28.5 x 6 cm x 6 folios
Material: paper?
Condition:
Scripts: unknown
Languages: Sanskrit
Subjects: Bauddha; Bauddha
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Reel No. B 90-15 Inventory No. 34108

Title Maitreyavyākaraṇamahāyānasūtra

Subject Bauddha Sūtra

Language Sanskrit

Manuscript Details

Script Newari

Material paper

State complete

Size 28.5 x 6.0 cm

Folios 6

Lines per Folio 6

Foliation figures in the middle right-hand margin of the verso, while the title Maitreyavyākaraṇa is written somewhere in the middle left-hand margin of verso somewhere recto

Scribe Savānanda

Date of Copying NS 831

Place of Deposit NAK

Accession No. 5/189

Manuscript Features

Accession of this MS has not been mentioned in the Preliminary Title List.

Excerpts

Beginning

❖ oṁ namo maitreyanāthāya ||

evam mayā śrutam ekasmiṃ samaye bhagavān rājagṛhe viharati sma || veṇuvane kalandakanivāse mahatā bhikṣusaṃghena sārddham arddhatrayodaśabhir bhikṣuśataiḥ || atha khalv āyuṣmāñ

chāriputro mahāprājño dharmasenāpatir vibhuḥ |

lokasyānukampārthaṃ śāstāraṃ paripṛcchati ||

yo ʼsāv ā(!)nāgato buddho nirddiṣṭo lokanāyakaḥ |

maitreya iti nāmnāʼsau sūtre pūrvāparāntike |

tasyāhaṃ vistarañ caivaṃ śrotum icchāmi nāyaka |

ṛddhiñ caityānubhāvañ ca tan me brūhi narottama ||

athainam avadac chāstā vyākariṣyāmy ahan tava |

vistaran tasya buddhasya maitreyasya śṛṇo(!) hi me || (fol. 1v1–4)

End

parinirvṛttasya tasyaiva maitreyasya mahāmuneḥ |

da⟨r⟩śavarṣasahasrāṇi saddhadharmaḥ sthāsyate tadā |

praśadayiṣyatha cittāni tasmiṃ śākyamunau jine ||

tatro†(drantatha)† maitreyaṃ sambuddhaṃ dvipadottamaṃ ||

idam āścaryakaṃ śrutvā iām ṛddhim anuttamāṃ |

ko ⟨d⟩ vidān na prasīdeta api kṛṣṇā hi jātikaḥ ||

tasmād ihātmakāmena mahātmyam abhikāṃkṣatā |

sarddharmo guru(!) ka[r]ttavyaḥ smaratāṃ buddhaśāsanaṃ || ❁ || (fol. 6r5–6v1)

Colophon

iti maitreyavyākaraṇaṃ nāma mahāyānasūtraṃ samāptaṃ ||      ||

ye dharmā hetuprabhavā

hetu[s] teṣān tathāgato hy avadat

teṣāṃ ca yo nirodha

evaṃvādī mahāśramaṇaḥ ||     ||

śubham astu || ○ ||

abde glāvagnidvirade śitamāghe guhānane |

pūṣāyāṃ pūṣṇadivase, sarvvānandasamāptakṛt ||     || (fol. 1–3)

Microfilm Details

Reel No. B 90/15

Date of Filming not indicated

Exposures 8

Used Copy Kathmandu

Type of Film positive

Catalogued by BK

Date 30-01-2009

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