160 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [June, ‘1905. 
The work consists of ten Parivarta ed i aa named re- 
spectively as, (1) Ravanadhyesana, (2) Sarvadharmasamuccaya, 
(3) Sears i (4) pode oie (5) Tat thagatanityanityatya, (6) 
Ksanika, (7) Nairmanika, (8) Mamsabhaksana : (9) Dharani, and 
(10) om wight chapter which bears no specia al n 
hro ut the Lankavatara Sitra the pms is Buddha 
himself, "The first chapter is addressed to Ravana while the 
person spoken to in the remaining nine chapters is Mahamati, 
Ravana, King of Laika, prayed to Buddha for the solution of two 
questions, viz., (1) what is the distinction between dharma and 
adharma; and (2) oe could one pass beyond both dharma and 
«dharma, Buddha’s answers to these questions form the subject- 
“Aga VITA SHAATT— 
gay fafewararat qurat aTayreaa | 
sat facfreare farewrary efter nw 
BaeUaGTS, chapter on ateewe) | 
The passage referred to here gn ae a little variation twice in the 
Lankavatara Sit tra (in Chapter IT, p. 50, and Chapter X. p. 115 oapecirell 
of the Bengal Asiatic Society’s depots _ 
aan fasqararat aural arayTale | 
Fa THs Balreararear freurarg afiat: | 
(SETAC EH, ro afeawi, H aga) | 
The Tibetan versions of the passages run respectively as follows :— 
A aN Sar qrmgana aa’ | 
BS ELIE’ Ga a Lar | 
ex" YSATAESS "35 | 
PaGar am ae YT AES || 
(Kangyur, Mdo., Vol. V. Leaf 150, A.S. MSS.) 
no'g LAE TEARS 
LE'RGa ST 3" arnaian'h } 
y var 5a RFs "5a5 | 
Maga ee ay yr AAs || 
(Kangyur, Mdo, Vol. V. Leaf, 253, A.S. MSS.) 
“Of things that are discerned by intellect no self-existence CaD,, be 
ascertained ; therefore they are shown to be i inexplicable and essence celes#.” 
