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accession number:	1938.301.3.a
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updated:		2025-09-13 18:23:00.332000

Text, folio 3 (recto), 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. Ink and color on palm leaf; leaf: 5.4 x 56.2 cm (2 1/8 x 22 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1938.301.3.a

title:				Text, folio 3 (recto), 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:	ink and color on palm leaf
department:	Indian and Southeast Asian Art
collection:	Nepalese Art
type:		Painting
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measurements: Leaf: 5.4 x 56.2 cm (2 1/8 x 22 1/8 in.)
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	inscription:	śyamāne bodhisattvasya mahāsuttrasā cittaṃ nāvalīyate na saṃlīyate na viṣīdati na viṣādamāpadyate, nāsya vipṛṣṭhībhavati mānasam, na bhagnapṛṣṭhībhavati, notrasyati na saṃtrasyati na saṃtrāsamāpadyate, eṣa eva bodhisattvo mahāsattvaḥ prajñāpāramitāyāmanuśāsanīyaḥ / eṣaivāsya bodhisattvasya mahāsattvasya prajñāpāramitā veditavyā / eṣo 'vavādaḥ prajñāpāramitāyām / sacedevaṃ tiṣṭhati, eṣaivāsyāvavādānuśāsanī //


punaraparaṃ bhagavan bodhisattvena mahāsattvena prajñāpāramitāyāṃ caratā prajñāpāramitāyāṃ bhāvayatā evaṃ śikṣitavyaṃ yathā asau śikṣyamāṇastenāpi bodhicittena na manyeta / tatkasya hetoḥ? tathā hi - taccittamacittam / prakṛtiścittasya prabhāsvarā //


atha khalvāyuṣmān śāriputra āyuṣmantaṃ subhūtimetadavocat - kiṃ punarāyuṣman subhūte asti taccittaṃ yaccittamacittam? evamukte āyuṣmān subhūtirāyuṣmantaṃ śāriputrametadavocat kiṃ punarāyuṣman śāriputra yā acittatā, tatra acittatāyāmastitā vā nāstitā vā vidyate vā upalabhyate vā? śāriputra āha - na hyetadāyuṣman subhūte /


subhūtirāha - sacedāyuṣman śāriputra tatra acittatāyāmastitā vā nāstitā vā na vidyate vā nopalabhyate vā, api nu te yukta eṣa paryanuyogo bhavati yadāyuṣmān śāriputra evamāha - asti taccittaṃ yaccittamacittamiti? evamukte āyuṣmān śāriputra āyuṣmantaṃ subhūtimetadavocat - kā punareṣā āyuṣman subhūte acittatā? subhūtirāha - avikārā āyuṣman śāriputra avikalpā acittatā //


atha khalvāyuṣmān śāriputra āyuṣmate subhūtaye sādhukāramadāt - sādhu sādhvāyuṣman subhūte / yathāpi nāma tvaṃ bhagavatā araṇāvihāriṇāmagratāyāṃ nirdiṣṭo nirdiśasi /


ataś ca bodhisattvo mahāsattvo 'vinivartanīyo 'nuttarāyāḥ samyaksaṃbodherupaparīkṣitavyaḥ, avirahitaś ca bodhisattvo mahāsattvaḥ prajñāpāramitāyā veditavyaḥ / śrāvakabhūmāv api śikṣitukāmena iyameva (vaidya 4) prajñāpāramitā śrotavyā udgrahītavyā dhārayitavyā vācayitavyā paryavāptavyā pravartayitavyā / ihaiva prajñāpāramitāyāṃ śikṣitavyaṃ yogamāpattavyam / pratyekabuddhabhūmāv api śikṣitukāmena iyameva prajñāpāramitā śrotavyā udgrahītavyā dhārayitavyā vācayitavyā paryavāptavyā pravartayitavyā / ihaiva prajñāpāramitāyāṃ śikṣitavyaṃ yogamāpattavyam /
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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 and Reproduced: cat. no. 754
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n136

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 233
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n257

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 233
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n257

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