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my, 8. 
matter of the first chapter. Thereafter one hundred and eight 
questions were raised by Mahamati; Buddha’s answers to these are 
treated in the remaining nine chapters. 
Some information about the author of the Lankavatara Sitra 
may be gathered from the following verses occurring in the 10th 
Chapter of the work :— 
arar a & agata: faat fag: garafa: | 
Rlataaaatatss ata 4 facst | fart 9 
aaate agqua: fuarfa a foataT:* | 
staqufa ararat atadweagga: | 
(A.S. MSS. p. 143). 
The Tibetan version of the above runs thus :— 
CRT RES | 
zy FNS H AI 
ms bial sa SAIN 
RIC FETA SNAG |] 
WRC RSTAL ASST MO | 
WAYS SSVI SATA’ | 
RATS ST HANAN | 
TAA AAATATS GAT | 
_ (Kangyur, Mdo, Vol. V., Leaf 292-293, A.S. MSS.) 
The above passages may be translated thus :— 
Pile er is Vasumati, my father the Brahman named 
Prajapati; I belong to the same clan as rier booed my name is 
Jina, the passionless one, I was born at Campa. Somagupta sprung 
= m the Lunar race is (in fact) my father and he my grandfather 
ig 
ee 
1 The orig, is fafepey which should be fagsit for the Tibetan equi- 
valent j < . 
2 Faqs | 
3 The meaning of this line is not clear. 
