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N.B. There are a few repetitions in this list : the cause of which is, that 

 the list is composed of literal extracts from the catalogues subjoined to 

 sundry independent scriptures. 



When I stated, in the letter which accompanies these papers, that this 

 list might be relied on, I ought to have restricted the expression to the 

 enumeration of names simply : for the classification of its nomenclature (as 

 purdnas, tantras, &c.) is the work of my old friend, and is doubtfully 

 deducible from the authority of his books. 



What I have gathered on the subject of the arrangement of generic and 

 specific titles of the Bauddha scriptures, I have stated to the Asiatic 

 Society of Calcutta. Sufl5ce it here to say, that Sutra and Dhamia are the 

 most general titles of Buddhist works of religion ; and that the Bauddha 

 equivalents for the Brahmanic Purdna and Tantra seem to be Vydkarana, 

 and Upadesa. 



B. H. Hodgson. 



Extract of a Letter from Brian Houghton Hodgson, Esq. 

 to Dr. Nathaniel Wallich. 



" Nipal, 17th October 1827- 

 " In a clever paper in the first and second numbers of the Calcutta Quar- 

 " terly Oriental Magazine (Review of the Bombay Literary Transactions), 

 " it is said that one of the distinctions between Jainism and Buddhism is, that 

 " the Jaina statues are all naked, and the Bauddha statues all clothed. The 

 " pictures now sent you * are proofs that this notion is false. You see too 

 " that my Bauddha images are called Digambara, a name heretofore fancied 

 , " to be peculiar to Jainism ; this is another error, and were this the place for 

 " dissertation, I could bring forward many other presumptions in favour of 



* See Plate I, fig. a. b. 



