Vol. V, No. 2.] A new MS. of Buddha Carita. 49 
[N.S.] 
Chinese translations. The translator of Buddhacarita was 
Dharma Rakga, a pandit of mid India, who worked for nearly 
regarded as a trustworthy authority. But his translation is 
not a sure guide to the original text, specially when it is a 
lost work. 
order to give a general idea of Cowell’s Translation of 
the Sanskrit Buddhacarita as compared with Beal’s ] 
tion of the Chinese version of the same work, I subjoin. 
a comparative table of the verses in each canto in the two 
Translations. 
Canto Cowell Beal 
i 94 126 
= 56 61 
3 65 66 
4 103 69 
5 87 95 
6 68 Td 
7 58 75 
8 87 95 
9 72 112 
10 41 50 
ll 75 92 
iz 118 116 
13 73 76 
The table shows that the Chinese translation was at best 
a free one and not a close translation. 
in many quarters it is believed that the MS. Treasures of 
Nepal are being exhausted, and this belief found an expression 
in our Annual Address of 1907. But the woe des this 
e new 
known only in their Tibetan or Chinese Translations—and many 
which are not known either in translation or in original. 
No. Bot. Garden 
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