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Preliminary Note on a Prajñāpāramitā-Manuscript
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 March 2011
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In Sir Aurel Stein's Serindia, E. Hoernle describes a palm-leaf Pothī of sixty-nine folios, marked Ch 0079 a, and found in Tun-Huang. Hoernle saw that this was a manuscript of the large Prajñāpāramitā. A consideration of the numerals led him to the inference that he had to deal with fragments of the Śatasāhasrikā (= Ś). Hoernle did not, however, compare the text of this manuscript with that of other manuscripts of the Prajñāpāramitā. Such a comparison shows that Hoernle's reading of the numerals was, in some instances, not correct, and that Ch 0079 a represents a recension of the Aṣṭādaśasāhasrikā prajñāpāramitā(= Ad).
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page 32 note 1 Vol. iii, 1921, pp. 1449–1450.
page 32 note 2 The script of the MS., wrongly conceived by Hoernle as “an early form of Nepalese, rather than a late form of Upright Indian Gupta”, has, in an article long awaiting publication, been described by me as “Calligraphic Ornate Gupta”; and evidence has been adduced for dating it not later than the sixth, or at any rate the seventh century a.d. A specimen is given in Serindia, Plate CXLII, and a clearer example can be seen in the Samyuktakāgama, Plate facing p. 580, in the JRAS. for 1913. Dr. Conze's examination of the numeral figures is valuable.
The MS. (palm-leaf) was evidently, as observed by Stein, (Serindia, pp. 814–15, 914)Google Scholar not a Central Asian product, but an importation from “India”—not, however, from Nepal.
page 33 note 1 Chapter 65 of Ad ends on fol. 613 b, 4. But the end of the folio is torn off, and so we cannot be quite sure that it contained the numeral 65.
page 33 note 2 An exception is the passage P 578 a5 to 583 b5, which is peculiar to P, and which was, according to Bu-ston, History of Buddhism, ii, 50, added at a later period.
page 34 note 1 Mem. Arch. Survey of India, No. 69.
page 35 note 1 Fol. b begins: labhyate. kutaḥ punaḥ
page 35 note 2 P has rearranged and abbreviated the text here, and does not correspond.
page 35 note 3 c begins: -ddhaḥ bodhisattva
page 35 note 4 d begins: -jñā-pāramitäyāṃ