244 Jotirnal of tJie Asiatic Society of Bengal. [May, 1907, 



The work was translated into Tibetan by the Indian sage 

 Kumara-^ri-bhadra and the Tibetan interpreter-monk venerable 

 S'es-rab and Hbro-sen-dkar (who was a native of the province of 

 Hbro or Do) in the holy monastery of Bsam-yas (Saraye).^^ The 

 translators begin the Tibetan version with a salutation to Manjnsri- 

 kumarahhuta. 



5. llambana-pariksa-tika, ^^^n^' q* qsp\ ^0^' ^^^* 



i^^jCJ^ — Annotation on the examination of the objects 

 of knowledge. 



It extends over leaves 1866 — 200& of the Tangyur, mdo, ze. 

 The work, which was composed by the teacher Vinita-deva / STfl]' 



^'^ ) ^P^^s thus : 



*' Meditating on the merciful Omniscient One, and saluting him 



by my head, I compose the Alambana-pariksa-tika."^ 



It ends thus : — 



**Here is finished the Alambana-pariksa-tika, which is a clean 

 work of the teacher named Vinita-deva who weighed all sorts of 

 alambana and is a lion of speakers, confounding the brains of the 

 Tirthika- elephants.''* 



The work was translated into Tibetan by the Indian sage 

 S'akya-simha and the Tibetan interpreter Vande-dpal-brtsegs of 

 Shu-chen. The translators begin the Tibetan version with a salu- 

 tation to Buddha (^C^'fi^X and all Bodhisattvas (gC^' 







f 5I'q^'q^:;'q':^q'y n 1 1 (Xangyur, mdo, ze, leaf 186b.) 



(Tacgyur, uido, ze, leaf 2006.) 



