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19, An Analysis of oe Lankavatara pieire Pror, Bani 
CHANDRA Srtiviaibaiee.: M.A. 
e Lankavatara Siitra is an ancient Buddhist Sanskrit work, 
a ape of which was ngitaeg t from Nepal by Mr, Hodgson 
nearly eighty years ago. gives an account of a miraculous , 
Visit which Buddha paid to Eason, the King of Lanka, Though 
t 
sects such a das Lokayata, Sankhya, Vaisesika, Pasupata, and 
others. It sags of the nine most sacred books of the Nepalese 
ete alla he Nava-dhamma. 
etan version of the Lankavatara Sitra is found in the 
ole Sect. Mdo, Volume V. In Tibetan it is called Hphags- 
pa-lan-kar-géegs s-pa-theg- -pa-chen-pohi-mdo, in which it is stated 
that the Siitra was translated into Tibetan by ed of the Tibetan 
King Ral-pa-can in the 9th Cent ntury A.D. Lo-tsa-wa Ge-long 
\Hgos. chos-grub), who translated the Siitra in Tibetan, also added 
7 mshi translation a commentary of a Chinese professor named 
en- “i 
ere are extant three Chinese translations® of the Lankava- 
tara — The first translation, which is incomplete, was made 
by ae bity dra, 443 A.D., the second by Bodhiruci A.D. 513, and 
D. 
Cen ntury A.D. , points out the aye mountain as the acs where- 
in Buddha, in olden days, sat to deliver the Lankavatara Sitra.* 
The Sitra was merel known by name to the Pandits of our 
country from a reference to it in the oe of 
Madhavaciryya i in the 14th Century A.D 
ee eal 
1 The nine most sacred books of the Nepalese goa hieie « 
1. Astasahasriké Prajiiiparamita; 2. Gandavyiha Dasabbimisvara 
mieegit Sitra; 5. Lankavatara el * gaiddhfiomapusderiica 
eg: "ris — de Koros’s pete of the Kangynr, p- 432 (Asiatio Resear- 
olum 
176, “ed aes Nanjio’s Catalogue of the Chinese Tripitaka, Nos. 175, 
aa first Chinese translation consisting of f 4 fasciouli, L / aa TD. 
© pre ‘3 4 ¢ re 
z — by Tsiang O’-chi and Su pst A.D. 1085. The 
Ch ond Chinese translation consists of 10 pares uli, 18 chapters. The he 
a translation consisting of 7 oe oe ond m bears @ preface by 
© Empress Wu-isd-thien | ALD. 684 yu 
de § Si-yn-ki, Boo k XI; "Beal's "Snddbistic 5 Records of the Western 
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‘SMgdhaviearypa Ldsoss ‘a passage from the Lankavatara Sitra saying :-— 
