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End of the Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines; Haribhadra’s final remarks; beginning of colophon, folio 187 (verso), from a Manuscript of the Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines (Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita-sutra)

Sunday, September 14, 1119 (year 239 of the Newar Samvat in the month of Ashvina)

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Eastern India, Bihar, Vikramashila Monastery. Painting: Nepal, Kathmandu

Gum tempera and ink on palm leaf

Leaf: 5.3 x 54.3 cm (2 1/16 x 21 3/8 in.)

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1938.301.187.b

Location

237 Himalayan

Fun Fact

The left corner of this page was repaired using yellow-colored Nepalese paper, indicating the importance of keeping the manuscript whole.

Description

Haribhadra lived in the 800s, and the final remarks to his commentary on the Ratnagunasamcaya-gatha were copied at the end of this manuscript. The Ratnagunasamcaya-gatha distills the teaching of the Sanskrit Perfection of Wisdom into Prakrit verses.

Inscriptions

Inscription

[[beginning of line 1 to the second half of line 6]] [tāvattathāgatastiṣṭha]tīti veditavyam / tāvattathāgato dharmaṃ deśayatīti veditavyam / avirahitāste ānanda sattvā buddhadarśanena dharmaśravaṇena saṃghopasthānena ca veditavyam / tathāgatāntikāvacarāste ānanda sattvā veditavyāḥ, ya enāṃ prajñāpāramita śroṣyantyudgrahīṣyanti dhārayiṣyanti vācayiṣyanti paryavāpsyanti pravartayiṣyanti deśayiṣyantyupadekṣyantyuddekṣyanti svādhyāsyanti likhiṣyanti satkariṣyanti gurukariṣyanti mānayiṣyanti pūjayiṣyantyarcayiṣyantyapacāyiṣyanti puṣpadhūpagandhamālyavilepanacūrṇacīvaracchatradhvajaghaṇṭāpatākābhiḥ, samantācca dīpamālābhiḥ, bahuvidhābhiś ca pūjābhiriti // idamavocadbhagavān āttamanāḥ / te ca maitreyapramukhā bodhisattvā mahāsattvāḥ āyuṣmāṃś ca subhūtirāyuṣmāṃś ca śāriputraḥ āyuṣmāṃścānandaḥ śakraś ca devānāmindraḥ sadevamānuṣāsuragaruḍagandharvaś ca loko bhagavato bhāṣitamabhyanandanniti // āryāṣṭasāhasrikāyāṃ prajñāpāramitāyāṃ parīndanāparivarto nāma dvātriṃśattamaḥ // samāptā ceyaṃ bhagavatyā āryāṣṭasāhasrikāyāḥ prajñāpāramitā sarvatathāgatajananī bodhisattvapratyekajinaśrāvakāṇāṃ mātā, dharmamudrā dharmolkā dharmanābhirdharmabherī dharmanetrī dharmaratnanidhānam akṣayo dharmaḥ acintyādbhutadarśananakṣatramālā sadevamānuṣāsuragandharvalokavanditā sarvasukhaheturiti // prajñāpāramitāṃ samyagudgṛhya paryavāpya ca dhārayitvā pravartya enāṃ viharantu sadārthina iti // [[end of the Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines (Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita-sutra)]]

Inscription Remark

This inscription is copied from the standardized edition of the Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita-sutra and does not reflect this specific leaf. Link: https://gretil.sub.uni-goettingen.de/gretil.html#orgba4abd8

Inscription

[[line 6, after “hyatām //”, the beginning of the concluding remarks and the colophon]] ye dharmā hetuprabhāvā hetusteṣāṃ tathāgato hyavadat / teṣāṃ ca yo nirodha evaṃvādī mahāśramaṇaḥ // [[continues onto folio 188r]]

Provenance

?–1938

(Heeramaneck Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

1938–

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned: cat. no. 754 archive.org