S. Ārya-aṣṭasāhasrikā-prajñāpāramitā

T. ’Phags pa shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa brgyad stong pa

M. Qutuγ-tu bilig-ün činadu kijaγar-a kürügsen naiman mingγ-a-tu

GDC Mong A2 : 3

ET_738

Ms, pothi, size 34,5 : 10,4 cm (30 : 8,5), fol. 1-525v, 23-27 lines, left margin r: Mongolian pagination, text framed in red. Illustrations on fol. 1r: left side Buddha Śākyamuni, Tibetan inscription underneath: shākyi thub pa la na mo; right side Prajñāgarbha, Tibetan inscription underneath: shes rab snying po la na mo; illustrations on fol. 2r: left side Buddha Amitābha, Tibetan inscription underneath: ’Od dpag med la na mo; right side Bodhisattva Maitreya, Tibetan inscription underneath: rJe btsub [!] byams pa la na mo; fol. 2v-3v: on left and right sides of the fol. illustrations of different stūpa. Russian paper, factory stamp fabriki naslednikov Sumkina No. 8; text preserved in a wooden šoγol.

Cover title: Qutuγ-tu bilig-ün činadu kijaγar-bar kürügsed naiman mingγan silig-tü orosiγsan bolai::

Inc. (1) (1) namo buddhay-a: (2) namo dharmay-a:

Term. (524v) (2) bilig-ün činadu kijaγar-a (3) kürügsen naiman mingγan (4) silig-tü tegüsbe:

Col. (524v5-525r15) Enedkeg-ün kelen-eče: enedkeg-ün ubadin-i dharm-a rā la kiged ločatshau-a bandhi bayirocan-a raksida kiged: sang suriy-a parbhi terigüten: töbed-eče nayiraγuluγad orosiγulbai:: sakyalig-ud-un degedü arslan-u vivanggirid öggügsen: ene bilig baramid umara-ača umara jüg-dür delgeremüi kemen jarliγ boluγsan-iyar: edüge mongγol ulus-dur delgeregülügsen-ü tulada: edüged-ün ba qoyitu qubitan amitan-a tusa boltuγai kemen:: ene qutuγ-tu bilig-ün činadu kijaγara kürügsen naiman mingγan-a: degedü töröl-ün sayin erdem-üd qamuγ-ača tegüsüged: buyan-tu nom-ud-un öljei-tü γoo-a-tu čimegsen: nom ba yirtinčü-yin törö yosun-i sayitur ilaγaduγči: tümen erdeni sečen qung tayiji: bodisung qatun: toγtaqu sečen čögökür tayiji kiged: ilangγui-a bsodnams nomči dayičing mgonbo tayiji qoyar-un jarliγ-iyar: bsam gdan singgei mongγolčilan orčiγuluγad nayiraγulju orosiγulbai::

A copy of the early translation of the Aṣṭasāhasrikā-prajñāpāramitā prepared by Samdan Sengge at the request of the Tümen erdeni sečen qung tayji, the Bodisung Qatun, Toγtaqu sečen čögökür tayiji and Bsodnams nomči dayičing gonbo tayiji. The translation was prepared from Tibetan translations done by Dharmatala and Lotsaba Vairocana, Rakshita and Sang Suryaprabha. This translation was included in the St. Petersburg Kanjur, but not in the printed Kanjur of 1718/20, compare the colophon in Ligeti 1942-44, No. 766.¹ The colophon of the St. Petersburg Kanjur edition is nearly identical to the colophon in the Ernst collection, except that the Kanjur colophon does not mention Tümen erdeni sečen qung tayiji.²