György Kara (descr.): The Mongol and Manchu Manuscripts and Blockprints in the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
The Mongol Collection
Cambudvib yiıtincü ulus kei qur-a kereg-iyer oroyad : kelkü ulus-un tariyan ebesün elbeg boltuyai • eőige eke terigülen qamuy amitan erke-ber jiryaju : ecüs-ttlr burqan-u qutuy-tur kürkü boltuyai • qamuy amitan-i sedkil-tür bodi sedkil oroqu boltuyai: qoyar ciyulyan öber-iyen [15a] büttln toyuluysan burqan kiged : nisvanis-un emgeniküi yasiyun jobalang-i arilyayĞi degedü Sasin nom : Sasin bariyőin-u degedü bursang quvaray-ud-un ibegeküy-yin oron yurban erdeni-yin öljei qutuy orosiqu boltuyai • tegüsbe • : • mam-gha-lam • : • sadu edgü • : • Manuscript copy of a late 16th century print. Purist version of an earlier translation. The text for the printing blocks was prepared on the Tümed Altan qayan's bequest by his grandson Ilayuysan buyan-u erke/erketü [=*Rgyal-ba dge-ba'i dban-ldan] Bayayud bayatur narmayi/qung tayiji and âcarya guoshi Yon-tan bzan-po dge-slon, with the benediction of the latter, also called Mongyol-un Sayin erdemtü arqad, in ay'/a-monkey (ga mecin) year, 1584. Gy. Kara, Az Arariyfény-szútra. Suvarnaprabhâsottamasûtrendrarâja. Yon-tan bzan-po szövege. Mongol Nyelvemléktár, vols. XIII-XIV (Budapest 1968). Cf. Kanjur/Ligeti no. 177; P. Aalto, Notes on the Altan Gerel in: SOF XIV(1950), p. 26., C. Damdinsürílng, Ja yun bilig, no. 32, pp. 160-166, and Two Mongolian Colophons to the Suvamaprabhäsottama-sütra in: Acta Orient. Hung. XXXIII (1979), pp. 39-58; Gy. Kara, Qaradas. Translator's note to Professor Damdinsüren's Two Mongolian Colophons: ibid., pp. 59-63. Cf. also Mong. 80 and 120, below. Mong. 78 Paflcaraksâ. AyuSi's Version Manuscript, 17th century copy of AyuSi guiSi's edition of 1587, based on §es-rab Sen-ge's early 14th century translation; pothi, 58.5 : 19.3 (f. 1,2a: 448.5 : 14.8) cm, paper, pagination, ornaments, calamus, ink and style as in Mong. 77; 27 lines/page; covers covered with rough, dark yellow linen with traces of flower-and-leaves pattern. No title on the cover. Titles in the text: see inc., end, and col., only the latter contains two common titles of this book of five tantric works: Qutuy-tu tabun ayimay-tu nom erdini "Holy Fivefold Dharma-Jewel" (V, lib) and Tabun ay ima y tarni "Fivefold Dhâranî[Book]" (V, 12a, 14a) or Tabun ayimay tarnis-un sudur "Sûtra of the Five Groups [of] Dhâranîs" (V, 12b). Inc. Book I, f. la (ka nigen): namo buddhay-a • : • namo dharmay-a • : • namő sangghay-a • : • Hindkeg-ün keleber : Ma-ha-a sa-a-ha-a-sra br-a-marda nam-a sudr-a [= Mahâsâhasra pramardâna nâma sûtra] • : • Töbed-ün keleber : Stöng cenbö rabtu gjomsba 107
