The Colophon of Newar Buddhist Manuscript 106 of the Kyoto University Library

Abstract

The Newar Buddhist manuscript, Śārdūlakarṇāvadāna, no. 106 of the Kyoto University Library, was copied by a scribe named Ṣaḍānanda in A.D. 1923. Another ms., Śiṣyalekhadharmakāvya, no. 389 of the Tokyo University Library, was copied in 1912. The scribe, Ṣaḍānanda, introduced himself as “an inhabitant at Mahābauddha temple in Patan and awarded the title of Vajrācārya (by the Non-Newar Government)”. These two mss. are written in the Devanāgarī script.