518 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XVIII, 
x oO 
Indian translator Ra, or from Ra. Titles and names like 
these will be immediately verifiably as soon as we have proper 
indexes to the existing Tanjur and Kanjur catalogues. Now 
an identification is largely a matter of chance unless time is 
spent out of proportion to the importance of the result. In 
Tibetan literary history there are several different Ra scholars. 
I possess a namthar of Ra lotsava, in one volume, o 
151 leaves, bought in Pharijong from an itinerant bookseller 
from Lhasa. I have been told that there are different nam- 
thars of this name. My copy is entitled: x] g Sastsac” 
FTES ASA SaF ser CMA BT RHA AA 
JAAS !] The marginal title is. NCIC ray The 
“a 4 
syllable X=e%* is explained asthe name of a country. From 
191. LAPS TA ERTS (172). Biography of the 
fa 
the above: book it appears that the Lotsava’s full name was 
vores EIAs His pupil was RRA RO The pupil of 
<4 a Zs : 
this one again, ANC The latter’s pupil was 
Wess ay j I the 
AAI ATA 3 who is the author of the namthar. In 
me . 
body of the work there is a legend which explains the name 
X" in connection with the horns of Qe 95’ or Yamantaka, 
< . 
whose form the Lotsaya assumed at the occasion of a sor 
turesque incident in his career. This seems at variance wit 
the first explanation as a geographical term. : 
192. AN EOS IA (106). Biography of Lama 
Rachung, Milaripa’s disciple. Kagyii. 
193. EE aa (94). The mountain book. Al" often 
book. x here probably 2 Ay aga, teaching, instruc- 
tion. . S a ae 
194, AST Gy HATHA AAAS] (209). : 
the incarnation of the Rikgya monastery for the subjection of 
the Tamsi-gnomes (yy =sarey a kind of a5). 


