BnF Sanscrit 143

• Bibliothèque nationale de France. Département des Manuscrits
• Known as: Sanscrit 143, Burnouf 75.
• Siglum: BnF¹⁴³

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.

Title	Samādhirājasūtra
Rubric	(folio 1v) 𑑊 namaḥ sarvvabudhabodhisatvebhyaḥ ||
Incipit	anirādham anutpannam anāvilam anakṣaraṃ | mahāyānamahaṃ bhāṣye buddhajñānābhivāñchayā ||
Explicit	(folio 138) idam avocad bhavān āttamanāś candraprabhaḥ kumārabhūtaḥ āyuṣmāś cānandas tāś catasraḥ parṣado bhikṣuḥ bhikṣuṇyupāsakopāśikāḥ aneke ca śuddhāvāsakāyikā devaputrāḥ sadevamānuṣāsūragandharvvaś ca loko bhavato bhāṣitam abhyanandann iti ||
Final Rubric	aryasarvvadharmasvabhāvasamatāvipañcitāt samādher yathālabdham parivartto nāmaḥ catvāliṃśatitamaḥ samāpta || 40 ||

Physical description
Language/Script	Sanskrit in Nepālākṣara.
Format	pothi
Material	paper
Extent	138 folio.
Dimensions	(leaf) x mm (written) x mm
Foliation	(original) Nepālākṣara numerals, in the top-left corner and in the right margin, verso. On the recto of the last folio.
Layout	9 lines per page.
Hand	(sole) Newa script in ink. Hand of Bhāgyasiṃha.

History
Date of production	The colophon gives a Nepālavarṣa date of ṛtucandrananda, or 916.
Place of origin	Nepal
Provenance	Given to Eugène Burnouf by Brian Houghton Hodgson.
Acquisition

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• BnF¹⁴³

(From folio 3r7)