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Aṣṭasāhasrikā prajñāpāramitā, circa 1200-1399.
अष्टसाहस्रिका प्रज्ञापारमिता
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Indic 16
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Standardized Title:
- Tripiṭaka. Sūtrapiṭaka. Prajñāpāramitā. Aṣṭasāhasrikā. Selections.
- Language:
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Bodhisattvas--Art.
- Bodhisattvas.
- Wisdom--Religious aspects--Buddhism.
- Wisdom--Religious aspects--Buddhism--Early works to 1800.
- Mahayana Buddhism--Doctrines--Early works to 1800.
- Mahayana Buddhism--Doctrines.
- Bodhisattvas--Art--Early works to 1800.
- Genre:
- treatises
- illuminated manuscripts
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Manuscripts.
- Art.
- Penn Provenance:
- Formerly owned by George P. Bickford (Cleveland, Ohio).
- Formerly owned by Ken Robbins (Potomac, Maryland).
- Gift of Ken Robbins, 2015.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (1 leaf) : palm leaf ; 48 x 5 cm
- Place of Publication:
- circa 1200-1399.
- १२००-१३९९.
- Language Note:
- In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
- Summary:
- Early manuscript leaf from Nepal, with a short section taken from a teaching (sūtra) on Mahāyāna Buddhist wisdom. There are three painted images: a larger, central figure, possibly the bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara, with two attendants on either side. These images are painted over the original script and so are later than the text.
- Notes:
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Written in 5 lines per leaf.
- 1 leaf.
- Dated 1200-1399 based on previous appraisal.
- Corrected text in margins; vertical borders indicated with triple black line surrounding three paintings.
- Cited in:
- Included, with images, in Czuma, Stanislaw. Indian art from the George P. Bickford Collection : catalogue (Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1975), no. 130.
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Indic 16.
- OCLC:
- 946660708
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