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one important licuna of 11 verses. The first twenty-five verses of 
the printed edition seem to be Amriténanda’s own com 
A new and older version of the Dakarnava has been obtained, 
which contains more matter in a curious vernacular, perhaps s the 
mother of Bengali, then | is usually fonnd in ordinary manuscript 
copies of that work. In fact, the few Sanskrit verses in each sec- 
tion simply introduce the vernacnlar matter. e manuscript is 
written in the llth century Newari on thick paper, which has 
grown brown with age. This paper is not of Mahomedan manu- 
facture and is, perhaps, the old paper called Vansapatra paper by 
the Nepalese and Dafue paper by Europeans, of which many frag- 
ments liave been obtained from Central Asia. 
The Maharaja is extremely unwillirg to allow the old palm- 
leaf manuscripts 2 e removed from Nepal. This is one of 
the reasons why no old palm-leaf manuscripts have been pro 
cured by the. ei. The Maharaja, however, rind allows Siiphea 
to be made of these old manuscripts, and many have been copied 
by the Sastri’s assistants under his own immediate supervision or 
by Nepalese scribes, 
e printed edition of the Astasahasrika Prajnaparamita, 
and in fact all the manuscripts hitherto known of that work, com- 
mence with 21 verses which have previously been regarded as part 
and passat. of the Prajniparamita itself. It is interesting, how- 
ever, to note that in a dilapidated palm-leaf copy of the work. the first 
leaf of which is lost, the second leaf begins with gfafeart 
USSR | ea Haran aaa gaa waara, etc. On comparing this 
with other manuscripts it was found that @fafear is the last word 
of the 20th verse. Hence twenty of the twenty-one verses, which 
are now regarded a as forming a part of the Prajnapar: imita, are rea}- 
ty a Pragasti or Mahatmya of the Prajnaparmita by Rahula Bhadra, 
the 21st being only wesfa or the merit of repeating the Mahat- 
—_ - The real Prajnaparamita begins and ends in prose. Thus 
we ; get a: genuine work by Rahula ‘Bhadra, a well-known writer of 
the 6th century, imbedded in the Prajnaparamita. 
- eagaeh isa ena work in Prakrit. It was written 
; co ra: 
of scrape made a careful copy of Haramekhala. The “ Chha- 
In the 9th and 10th centuries daring the y years 0 of the 
reign of Pala oes in Eastern India, when Bultdhism and 
Hinduism were stru ing for su remacy, Varl various polemical works 
were written on both sides, jee one of which (on the Hindu 
