20. Sanskrit works on Literature, Grammar^ Rhetoric and 



a Lexicography as preserved in Tibet, 



Bj Satis Chandra Vidtabhusana, M.A. 



The materials of the present paper are derived from two 

 volumes of the Tangyur (section mdo), viz., Le and S'e, the first 

 of which was brought down to Calcutta from Gyantse during the 

 Tibet expedition of 1903, and the second was deposited in the 

 India Office, London, by the late Mr. Hodgson. The paper gives a 

 short account of 28 secular Sanskrit works that were translated 

 into Tibetan duinng the Buddhistic age, and of which the transla- 

 tions were preserved in the Tangyur collection by the foremost 

 Tibetan scholar Bu-ston, at the end of the 13th century a.d. Thp 

 originals of some of these works such as jVIeghaduta, Kavyadansa, 

 Amarakosa, Kalapa-vyakarana and Candra-vyakarana still exist 

 in India, while those of the remaining works have been lost here. 

 It is a matter of congratulation that the Lamas, taking advantage 

 of tlie printing system that prevailed in Tibet very extensively 

 in the 12th century a.d., have also in some cases preserved the 

 Sanskrit originals side by side with the Tibetan ti'anslations. 

 Thus, for instance, the Chando-ratnakara, which has been noticed 

 in this paper, has been preserved in Tibet both in its Sanskrit 

 original and Tibetan version. The translations were made largely 

 in the Saskya monastery of Tibet. 



L ■ ^«3^3miT5r^'^^T?T, Candra-vyakarana-sutra-nama (Tib. 



gCS^'^aj-q-5-5;-qQ^-5^«^-(3j^2-q )-The aphorisms 



of the Candra-vyakarana, by Candra-gomi. 



I 



1 There is a Sanskrit manascripC of the Candra-vyakarana in the 

 Library of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Govt, collection No. 3823. It is 

 written in Newari and begins thas :— 



T^ ^riirej ^pIw ^^?^* ^^m ^^H i 



It consists of six chapters and ends thas ; 





