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[RAS Hodgson MS 50] Sarvadurgatipariśodhanam


language : Sanskrit
date : [1800?]
Paper; 5 lines on each page. Cowell and Eggeling describe the writing as “modern”, i.e. 19th century. Text begins: evaṃ mayā śrutamekasminsamaye bhagavānsarvadevottamanandanavane viharati sma | – ādiyogo nāma samādiḥ f.24r (f.13 in RAS Hodgson MS 51); maṇḍalarājāgrī nāma samādhiḥ f.29 (f.19v ibid.); karmarājāgrī – f.32v; Text ends: sarvadurgatipariśodhane tejorājasya tathāgatasyārhataḥ samyasaṃbuddhasya kalpaikadaśaḥ samāptaṃiti || Manuscript acquired by Hodgson in Nepal. See p. 39-40 in Cowell, E. B. and Eggeling, J. ‘Catalogue of Buddhist Sanskrit manuscripts in the possession of the Royal Asiatic Society (Hodgson Collection)’, published in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1875, Pt. 1, pp.1-56. Brian Houghton Hodgson, gift, 1835-6. Text in Sanskrit. Digitizing sponsor: Byoma Kusuma Buddhadharma Sangha