150 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. 



The Way of Salvation has three principal parts: 



I. Morality (books 1-2) ; 



II. Concentration (books 3-13) ; and 



III. The Higher Wisdom (books 14-23). 



For the purposes of Occidental students, the native di\ision into 

 twenty-three books is of great value. Unfortunately, there are no 

 original numbered native subdivisions of the books. To supply such 

 subdivisions is a matter of great importance, not only for making it 

 possible to cite the work with convenience and precision, but also for 

 facilitating the study of the work and in particular the comprehension 

 of the logical relation of the different parts. It is extremely desirable 

 that these subdivisions should be made so circumspectly and success- 

 fully that future editors will not be tempted to change them and so 

 to defeat the purposes of their predecessors who shall cite the work 

 according to the subdivisions of the first Occidental edition. 



The first duty of an editor is to understand his text, and this is true 

 whether he means to subdivide it rightly or not. But the subdivisions 

 cannot rightly be made without such an understanding. And on the 

 other hand, the very making of them forces the editor to come to a 

 clear comprehension of the purpose of each constituent part of his text. 

 This last is accordingly tantamount to making an analytical table of 

 contents, and of such a table the subdivisions are of course an implicit 

 and essential feature. It is indeed not possible to make a logical and 

 orderly analysis of an illogical and disonlerly book. Buddhaghosa's 

 discussion is of absolutely logical and orderly sequence, but it is never- 

 theless at times extraordinarily complicated and difficult. Thus for 

 the editor's purposes during the progress of so large a work, a printed 

 analysis is an almost indispensable necessity. Besides all this, the 

 analysis is valuable to students of Buddhism at large as a provisional 

 report of the contents of a practically inaccessible treatise. It is 

 true that what is here given covers only a portion of the work, but 

 that portion makes a complete whole by itself. For these reasons 

 I have deemed the publication of the Analysis of Part I. to be abun- 

 dantly justified. 



Titles of the several books of the Visuddhi-magga. 



Part I. — Sila, Morality. 

 Book 



1 iSlla-Niddesa 



2 Dhutanga-Niddesa 



