Translation of a Tibetan Fragment. 11 
Miilier’s Translation. 
** Firma conscientia mediante omnia parvi _pendendo in 
i Quibus 
namque religionis = agen. Magnates autem intellectu (suo) 
ea non comprehendun 
e matter has Bot been made much more aces by the 
aid of the Tangutan Monk and Mongolian studen 
Giorgi’s Translation. 
‘‘Misericordia recreat et a cruciatibus absolvit Summus 
protector viventes omnes qui eam adoratoribus suis revelat. 
nefici largitoris virtutem sciuits omnes, mie orationis invoca- 
tionisque vim et caciam exponere et aperire nesciunt: 
Pans ea RC a arcanum illius legis que lex est spirituum, 
How far either of these expresses the sense of the opening of 
this newts may now be duly appreciated by the perusal of 
the followi 
Mr. Cuoineit Translation. 
[Chom dan das] ‘‘ addressed his mind to meditation upon 
the affairs of animate existences. The ignorant do not perceive 
the moral signification of moral thin 
Not a word of this appears in the preceding versions. Its 
accuracy speaks for itself; but in confirmation of its correctness, 
the original Tibetan, both in Tibetan and Roman characters 
is here reprinted, as well as the translation of the entire passage. 
Those to whom the prosecution of the subject is of interest may 
readily estimate for themselves the superiority of Mr. Csoma’s 
labours, by comparing them at length with the text and trans- 
lations of Fourmont and Giorgi in the Alphabetum Tibetanum. 
Before proceeding to the new translation, powevers a few 
further remarks upon the subject of the old are sary. 
The Society is apprised of the general Suaiecear of the 
contents of the Gyut portion of the Kahgyur, to which our 
original belongs, and will not be surprised, therefore, to learn 
that a great part of the extract consists of Mantras, or ‘mystical 
formule, or invocations, and these not in Tibetan but in Sanscrit. 
Now, neither of the former translators had any knowledge of 
Sanscrit,, nor was aware that these passages were in that langu- 
e. Fourmont considered them to be Tibetan, as well as the rest, 
and very deliberately translated the Sanscrit words with the 
help of his Tibetan Dictionary. As he could not find the exact 
words, however, he was content to take those most like them ; 
and at the expense of a few letters omitted or inserted, he con- 
trived equivalents for the mantras equally baisdachers with those 
