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[RAS Hodgson MS 65] Adhivāsanavidhi


language : Sanskrit
date : [1800?]
Paper; 6 lines on each page. Cowell and Eggeling describe the handwriting as “modern”, i.e. 19th century. Text begins: tato adhivāsanavidhi | sūtra ādinayyākhanamo – jalapātrapūjā f.2r; thvate ātmapūjā f.3r; iti kumbhapūjā f.4r; iti vṛttikādayake vidhi f.4v; trideva āsanapūjāḥ f.5v, etc. Text ends: thvate adhivāsanavidhi samāpta || Manuscript acquired by Hodgson in Nepal. See p. 45 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 partly in Sanskrit, partly in vernacular language. Digitizing sponsor: Byoma Kusuma Buddhadharma Sangha