Vol. VII, No. 7.] The newly-found MS. of Chatuhsatika. 433 
[NV.8.] 
araajatare the Yogacara doctrine of the Bodhisattvas, and 
as Catuhfataka or composed of 400 Slokas. The term Catuh- 
Sataka may mean either a work in verse or in prose, the extent 
being 400 Slokas of 32 letterseach. In the present case the work 
appears to be in 400 Anustup verses, though I am not sure that 
there are not some sentences in prose. But when it is named 
CatuhSataka, the extent must be 400 x 32 letters or something 
approaching to it. The text is accompanied b ingly 
lucid commentary by some writer later than Buddhapalita, 
the commentator of the Madhyamaka Karikas by Nagarjuna. 
The writer of the text is well known. Nanjio’s catalogue con- 
tains the names of nine of his works. Heis often mentioned in 
Hieunth Sang’sitinerary. Beal inhis Caterneaspeaks very highly 
of his works. He is said to have been a disciple of Nagarjuna, 
and must have flourished about the 2nd century A.D. But we 
know nothing of the commentator, not even his name. Some 
of his words have a peculiar Bengali look. He might have 
hailed from Eastern India. Aryaideva was a Southerner. 
In order to ascertain the verses of the texts I had to col- 
These are no part of the text. Thirty have been introduced 
with such words as “yfayqieaarg” in 16 instances, fauraagt- 
S * s * 
aq aie inone, Byway HS GRIMAHA, SziaaaTe 
in seven ——- aq in one, SUA TATE in one, 
avwafa fe in one, atq yaaa in one, and ayqraqy arg in one in- 
stance. Thus in fifty-nine instances we can positively say that 
these verses belong to the CatuhSataka of Aryadeva. When a 
verse is introduced with such words as ‘‘a yy fe,’ “ary a,” “af 
wy,” “sata,” “ata,” such verses are generally quoted by 
the commentator to support the text. Such verses may be- 
long to other authors or other works of Aryadeva, but not to 
the text. The verses introduced with such words as “qygry- 
aaa, “Sa waaal,” “sagrary qeuifaaa,” and “qurarg 
qaaq”’ are undoubtedly quotations from known works. But 
when a verse is introduced with such words as “geyq,”’ 
“gaa,” “are aia,” it becomes difficult to say whether they 
belong to the text or to some other work. But when any one 
of such verses is accompanied by a long commentary, it is most 
probably a part of the text. Taking the number to be about 
30, this fragment contains 59 x 30 verses of the original text. 
