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accession number:	1938.301.187.b
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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). 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)
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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
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creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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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
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measurements: Leaf: 5.3 x 54.3 cm (2 1/16 x 21 3/8 in.)
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	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)]]
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	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]]
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PROVENANCE

	(Heeramaneck Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?–1938
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1938–
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CITATIONS

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
	page number: 	Mentioned: cat. no. 754
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n136

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