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Mahajjātakamālā

matsunami_285 · General Library, The University of Tokyo

Sanskrit Nepālākṣara Script Kāvya

Repository General Library, The University of Tokyo

Reference No. matsunami_285

Language Sanskrit

Date Date not listed

About this Manuscript

"The Mahajjātakamāla was composed in late medieval Nepal (fourteenth to seventeenth centuries C.E.); half of its contents paraphrase an earlier Mahāyāna sūtra, the Karuṇapunḍarīka Sūtra. It has been edited by Michael Hahn." (Reikho Ohnuma, Head Eyes, Flesh and Blood, p. 288) Also see SAMHiTA on Bṛhat jātaka. This text is written in verse śloka form, and the jātaka genre of literature usually recounts previous lives of the Buddha.

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matsunami_285 · General Library, The University of Tokyo

Catalogue Metadata

Title	Mahajjātakamālā
Alternative Titles	Mahājātakamālā, Bṛhat-jātaka
Repository	General Library, The University of Tokyo
Reference Number	matsunami_285
Collection	Takakusu Junjiro Collection
Language	Sanskrit
Script	Nepālākṣara
Subject Classification	Kāvya
Date	Date not listed
Place of Origin	Japan
IIIF Manifest	Public IIIF manifest available