7. A new MS. of Buddha Carita. 
By MAHAMAHOPADHYAYA HARAPRASADA SHASTRI. 
last ten years by Divyadeva to Maharaja Sir Bir Samsher J ang 
search for a complete MS., added more than three and a half 
cantos of his own composition to complete the work. 
Amrtananda does not seem to have had access to Divya- 
deva’s MS. For in that case his copy would have been free from 
many lacune and many imperfections. The new MS. begins with 
leaf 3 and goes on to the 55th leaf and ends in the middle of the 
14th canto. The first complete verse of this MS. is the 46th 
verse in Cowell’s edition. The last portion of the 45th verse in 
Cowell is faufsagiwagiyae@a. But the incomplete verse with 
which our MS. begins is Sawai fatry:. It is well known that 
the first page of the first leaf of an Indian MS. is generally 
left blank. So in our MS. three pages are missing, la, 2a, 
and 2b. By counting letters of each line, I came to the con- 
clusion that one page contains 8! Upajati verses, in which the 
first canto is written. So altogether in these two leaves 25 
verses would be missing. But according to Cowell’s edition 45 
the pen of Amritaénanda seems to be extremely probable. 
And the condition of the 45th verse throws a shadow of doubt 
as to the authenticity of all the figs. 
I carefully compared Cowell’s edition of Buddhacarita 
with the new MS., and the most important thing that I laid my 
hands on is a passage consisting of 114 verses, which was a 
lacuna in Cowell’s work. The lacuna commences from the 
middle of the 2nd line of verse 41 in chapter 9 of Cowell’s 
edition. Cowell conjecturally emends one letter @, which 
