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Manuscript related to Kaṭhina dāna ritual

eap_79007003

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This manuscript lacks a beginning or end. It also is damaged from one side and in some places the ink of the text has also faded. The manuscript is hacked off from the margins, but the binding in between the folios is still intact. The folios are binded like a book. The main text is in Sanskrit language but the explanation is in Newar written in Nepal Akṣara. Title of the text is unknown but what is left visible in the folios. It appears to be dealing with buddhist rituals inspired by a Kaṭhina dāna, a procession which takes place in Nepal. While being a Theravāda buddhist festival of offering robes and other essential items to monks, the Kaṭhina dāna is also performed in Mahāyāna Buddhism but differently a series of rituals are performed as explained in this text apart from just monastic donation and slight difference in time and date. The text mentiones aromatic compounds like Pañcagandha, ornamental items like Pañcaratnas and other items used in the rituals like oils. The Nāga maṇḍala pūjā along with other pūjās which is believed to bring prosparity and offer boons in the afterlife Sukhāvatī the land of eternal bliss reciding place of Amitābha Buddha according to supporting texts.

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