174 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [April, 1910.] 



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Mahamahopadhyaya Pandit Haraprasad Sastri, M.A., has 

 arrived at the following conclusion regarding this work in 

 his report on the search of Sanskrit Manuscripts for the years 

 1895 — 1900. " During the period under review has been ac- 

 quired a brand-new anthology in the Prakrit entitled Rasiapa- 

 sasana. It commences with an invocation to Buddha. The 

 second verse invokes Lokesvara : but the third makes an obei- 



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ance to Siva- It speaks of another Prakrit anthology which 

 was at the height of its popularity at the author's time, entitled 

 Gatharatnakosa by Vairochana. The MS. is incomplete, still it 

 contains 448 verses in one and the same metre. The numbers 

 are given sometimes in figures and sometimes in letter numerals. 

 The author's name has not been found in the work/ 5 It is 

 evident from my remarks given above that his surmises are not 



correct- 



In conclusion, I have to say that I publish this article be- 

 cause it is not known to many that such a work exists in spite 

 of its forming important addition to Prakrit Literature and also 

 because Mahamahopadhyaya Pandit Haraprasad Sastri, M.A. 

 (who brought it to light and the only one who wrote anything 

 about it) has been misled by the following verse: — 



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In this verse the author praises his own work by comparing 

 it to a treasury, and the Shastri thought somebody else was 

 praising Vairochana. 



