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This is one of three Nepalese manuscripts of the Samādhirājasūtra, a Mahāyāna Buddhist text, in the collection of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Notably, this manuscript was used in the 1938 edition of Konstantin Régamey ("B."), prior to the discovery of the Gilgit manuscript.

According to the note on the recto of the first folio, this manuscript was given to Eugène Burnouf by Brian Houghton Hodgson in 1841.

 SamādhirājasūtraSanskrit in Nepālākṣara. 𑑊 namaḥ sarvvabudhabodhisatvebhyaḥ ||anirādham anutpannam anāvilam anakṣaraṃ | mahāyānamahaṃ bhāṣye buddhajñānābhivāñchayā || idam avocad bhavān āttamanāś candraprabhaḥ kumārabhūtaḥ āyuṣmāś cānandas tāś catasraḥ parṣado bhikṣuḥ bhikṣuṇyupāsakopāśikāḥ aneke ca śuddhāvāsakāyikā devaputrāḥ sadevamānuṣāsūragandharvvaś ca loko bhavato bhāṣitam abhyanandann iti || aryasarvvadharmasvabhāvasamatāvipañcitāt samādher yathālabdham parivartto nāmaḥ catvāliṃśatitamaḥ samāpta || 40 ||ye dharmmā hetuprabhāvāḥ hetus teṣāṃ tathāgataḥ hyavadat teṣāṃ ca yo nirodha evamvādi mahāśramaṇaḥ || || śubham astu sarvvajagatāṃm || ꣼ || || nepālavarṣa ṛtucandranande māghe ca māse kuhusaṃjñake tithau || śrībhāgyasiṃhaḥ satanūjavargge likhāpayaty eva samādhirājaṃ || ꣼ || Nepālākṣara numerals, in the top-left corner and in the right margin, verso. On the recto of the last folio. Double margin lines on the left and right. Hand of Bhāgyasiṃha. On the recto of the first folio: Samâdhi Râdja Le roi de la Contemplation Manuscrit qui m'a été donné par Mr. B. Hodgson. Mai 1841. samādhi𑑏 on the top-left corner.

Bound as a book.

 The colophon gives a Nepālavarṣa date of ṛtucandrananda, or 916. Nepal

Given to Eugène Burnouf by Brian Houghton Hodgson.

 Cabaton, Antoine. 1907. Catalogue sommaire des manuscrits sanscrits et pālis. 1er fascicule. Manuscrits sanscrits. Bibliothèque Nationale, Département des manuscrits. Paris: Leroux. See p. 18.Dutt, Nalinaksha, ed. 1941. Gilgit Manuscripts. Vol. II. Calcutta: Calcutta Oriental Press.Filliozat, Jean. 1941. Catalogue du fonds Sanscrit, fascicule 1, numéros 1-165. Paris: Adrien-Maisonneuve. See p. 85.Gómez, Luis O., & Jonathan A. Silk, eds. 1989. Studies in the Literature of the Great Vehicle: Three Mahāyāna Buddhist Texts. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan.Konstantin, Rágamey. 1938. Three Chapters from the Samādhirājasūtra. Warsaw: The Warsaw Society of Sciences and Letters.

IAST transliteration.

 First version.

namaḥ sarvvabudhabodhisatvebhyaḥ ||

anirodham anutpannam anāvilam anakṣaraṃ | mahāyānam ahaṃ toṣye buddhajñānābhivāñchayā || tārakaṃ sarvasatvānāṃ ghorāt saṃsārasāgarāt_ | saṃsthāpakaṃ ca nirvāṇe śānte kṣemaḥ niruttare ||

eva mayā śrutam ekasmiṃ samaye bhagavān rājagṛhe viharati sma gṛdhrakūṭe parvate mahatā bhikṣusaṃghena sārdhaṃ paripūrṇena bhikṣuśatasahasreṇa |

tatra bhagavān puna api Candraprabhaṃ Kumārabhūtam āmantrayate sma | tasmāt tarhi Kumāra bodhisatvena mahāsatvenemaṃ samāhim ākāṃkṣātā kṣipraṃ cānuttarāṃ samyaksa[ṃbo]dhim abhisaṃboddhukāmena sarvadharmāṇām abhāvasvabhāvajñānakuśalena bhavivatavyṃ |

kathaṃ ca kumāra bodhisatvo mahāsatvaḥ sarvadharmāṇām abhāvasvabhāvajñānakuśalo bhavati | iha kumāra bodhisatvena mahāsatvena abhāvasvabhāvā animittā alakṣaṇā anutpannā aniruddhā anakṣarāḥ śūnyā ādiśāntāḥ prakṛtiviśuddhāḥ sarvadharmāḥ prajñātavyāḥ |

yadā ca kumāra bodhisatvena mahāsatvena abhāvasvabhāvā animittā alakṣaṇā anutpannā aniruddhā anakṣarāḥ śūnyā ādiśāntāḥ prakṛtiviśuddhāḥ sarvadharmāḥ parijñātā bhavati | yathābhūtatas tadāyaṃ kumāra bodhisatvo mahāsatvaḥ sarvadharmāṇā abhāvasvabhāvajñānakuśala ity ucyate |

sarvadharmāṇām abhāvasvabhāvajñānakuśālo hi kumāra bodhisatvo mahāsatvaḥ sarvarūpaśabdagandharasaspraṣṭavyadharmebhyo na rajyate na duṣyate na muhyate |

tat kasya hetos tathā hi sa taṃ dhamaṃ na samanupaśyati taṃ dhamaṃ nopalabhate | yo rajy[e]ta yata vā rajy[e]ta yena vā rajy[e]ta yo duṣy[e]ta yatra vā duṣyatra yena vā duṣy[e]ta | y[o] muhy[e]ta yatavā muhy[en]a yena vā muhyeta sa taṃ dharmaṃ samanupaśyati | sa taṃ dharmaṃ nopalabhate |

taṃ dharmam asamanupaśyann anupalabhamānaḥ sarvatraidhātukenādhyyavasito bhavati kṣipram imaṃ samādhim pratilabhate kṣiprañ cānuttarāṃ samyaksambodhim abhisaṃbudhyate | tatredam ucyate ||

abhāvāḥ sarvadharmā animittā alakṣaṇā anutpannā aniruddhāś ca evaṃ dharmān vijñānatha | abhāvā nakṣarāḥ sarva śūnyā śādinimittaḥ | ya evaṃ jānatī dharmāṃ kumārā buddha socyate | tasmādd hi yo icchi vipāñcitām imā svabhāvasamatāṃ sugatāna [mātā] sa bhāvayātu sarvi abhāvadharmāṃ pratilapsyatīmāṃ jananāṃ jinānāṃ ||