SHT 638

  • Language: Sanskrit
  • Date: 700-899
  • Indoskript editor: Camillo Formigatti
  • Dynasty:
  • ID: 922
  • Place of origin: Toyoq (89° 36' long., 42° 46' lat.)
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ScriptProto-Sharada
LanguageSanskrit
MaterialBirch bark
Lines6 per page
DimensionsFolio height: ca 28.8 cm, width: ca. 7.7 cm
Dating8th–9th c.
Basis of datingPalaeography
OriginToyoq, northernmost Buddhist monastery complex on the eastern bank of the Toyoq stream; 2nd Turfan Expedition
Current locationStaatsbibliothek Berlin

Edition(s):

Sanskrithandschriften aus den Turfanfunden. Edited by Ernst Waldschmidt, Walter Clawiter, Lore Sander, Heinz Bechert, and Klaus Wille. Wiesbaden: F. Steiner, 1965; vol. I, p. 286.

Bailey, D. R. Shackleton. “The Varṇārhavarṇa Stotra of Mātṛceṭa (I).” Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 13, no. 3 (January 1, 1950): 671–701.

Bailey, D. R. Shackleton. “The Varṇārhavarṇa Stotra of Mātṛceṭa (II).” Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 13, no. 4 (February 1951): 947–1003.

Hartmann, Jens-Uwe. Das Varṇārhavarṇastotra des Mātṛceṭa. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1987.

Weller, Friedrich. Die Fragmente der Jātakamālā in der Turfansammlung der Berliner Akademie. 1st ed. Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 1955.

Lüders, Heinrich. Bruchstücke der Kalpanāmaṇḍitikā des Kumāralāta. Leipzig: Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft, 1926.

Additional information:

The akṣaras were selected from different fragments.

Sample page:

The sample page is available on the International Dunhuang Project website.

Sample page