id: 117670 accession number: 1938.301.187.b share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1938.301.187.b updated: 2023-08-23 19:51:11.730000 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). 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.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1938.301.187.b title: 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) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: Sunday, September 14, 1119 (year 239 of the Newar Samvat in the month of Ashvina) creation date earliest: 1119 creation date latest: 1119 current location: 237 Himalayan creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Eastern India, Bihar, Vikramashila Monastery. Painting: Nepal, Kathmandu technique: Gum tempera and ink on palm leaf department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art collection: Nepalese Art type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Leaf: 5.3 x 54.3 cm (2 1/16 x 21 3/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: 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)]] translation: remark: 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]] translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE (Heeramaneck Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?–1938 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1938– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: The left corner of this page was repaired using yellow-colored Nepalese paper, indicating the importance of keeping the manuscript whole. digital 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. wall description: This manuscript, consisting of 188 double-sided folios, was calligraphed by a scribe at a monastery in northeastern India, commissioned by a monk from Nepal. Judging from the style of the paintings, they are the work of Nepalese artists. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned: cat. no. 754 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n136 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1938.301.187.b/1938.301.187.b_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1938.301.187.b/1938.301.187.b_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1938.301.187.b/1938.301.187.b_full.tif