166 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. {June, 1909.] 
and as Bicbarikkaptiers The same sioahon we find, is 
given in the Tibetan version of Asvaghosa’s Buddha-carita (see 
Thomas’s paper on Matriceta and Mahéréjakanikalehha). 
o far there is very little to doubt with regard to the author- 
ship of these two works. A complete work of Buddha-carita in 
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of this book has Ba pietely dispelled my doubts. The lost 
portion of the Buddha-carita contains fourteen chapters, but 
this is complete in eighteen cantos, and the. subject of the lost 
chapters has no connection with the new poem. 
In my first Nepal tot Saundarénda Kavya is men- 
tioned in page 74. In 1907 I asked for this work and a palm-leaf 
manuscript was placed before me, the leaves of which were worn 
out into the form of a bow. The first line is complete. Several 
letters of the second have disappeared in the centre, many more 
of the third and subsequent lines. I expressed my disappoint- 
ment with the book, when the librarian Subba, Visnuprasada, 
pocsseorinye ra our associate member, ve ry courteously placed 
a paper manuscript before me which I immediately handed over 
to the scribe Kuveraratna Vajracarya for copying. This Kuvera- 
ratna is a remarkable man. In 1897 he saw Biihler’s Charts of 
a alphabets in my hand and immediately set to work to 
copy it. From that copy he has in the last eleven years mastered 
various alphabets, ancient and modern, and can now copy all 
sorts of manuscripts with fair accuracy. But his great difficulty 
is that he knows nothing of Sanskrit, so it requires a great deal 
of ae to decipher his transcriptions of manuscripts 
I have made a transcript of the whole of the manuscript. 
