Relief label from Borobudur’s hidden base, no. 131B (8th c. CE)

Version: (4aadd09), last modified (6db19a4).

Edition

⟨1⟩ maheśākhyasamavadhāna

Apparatus

⟨1⟩ maheśākhyasamavadhānamaheśākhyasamavadhāna HK2At first, Johan Hendrik Caspar Kern (1917, p. 150) read maheśākhyasamavadhāna as maheśākhyarāmavadhāna, but he considered the later to be an impossible word and considered the reading of ra to be incorrect.

Translation

gathering of eminent ones

Bibliography

First published by Kern (1896); republished by the same author (1917) and subsequently by Krom (1927); this digital edition based on the 1927 publication.

Primary

[HK1] Kern, Johan Hendrik Caspar. 1896. “Over de bijschriften op het beeldhouwwerk van Boro-Boedoer.” VMKAW-L 3e reeks, 12, pp. 119–128. Page 123.

[HK2] Kern, Johan Hendrik Caspar. 1917. “Over de bijschriften op het beeldhouwwerk van Boro-Budur (± 850 A. D.)” In: Verspreide geschriften, zevende deel: inscripties van den Indischen archipel, slot; de Nāgarakṛtāgama, eerste gedeelte. 's-Gravenhage: Nijhoff, pp. 145–156. Page 150.

[NJK] Krom, Nicolaas Johannes. 1927. Barabudur: archaeological description, vol. I. The Hague: Nijhoff. Page 52.

Secondary

Lévi, Sylvain. 1932. Mahā-karmavibhaṅga (La Grande classification des actes) et Karmavibhaṅgopadeśa (Discussion sur le MahāKarmavibhaṅga): textes sanscrits rapportés du Népal, édités et traduits avec les textes parallèles en sanscrit, en pali, en tibétain, en chinois et en koutchéen. Paris: E. Leroux. [URL]. Pages 18–19, item LXV.