164 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [June, 1905. 
‘Whatever is Krtaka (produced) is destructible, this is the 
view 3 the tinge kas 
According to the e peculiar calculation of the Nepalese Bud- 
dhists, the Lankavtara consists of 3,000 verses. So it is stated :— 
RaqatTaMatse Beary fafavea: | 
2ifa when frataqenfaag | 
utafwatat BATA TUITAT: | 
fof: age: estat fratufafa 202q | 
(A.S. MSS. Leaf 141.) 
“YT belong to the clan of Katyayana, I am come from the Sud- 
dhavasa heaven; I teach men religion leading to the City of Nir- 
this ee by means of 3,000 Si fitras (verses 
Kat ma to Mig: e clan the author of s Lankavatara be- 
longed, =a to hav n the same person who com mposed the 
indu socio-religious "sHbnte called Katyayana Die Siitra, 
for Katyayana is mentioned along with Yajiiavalkya thus: 
Raa: Baa aaaen | aaa a | 
(A.S. MSS., Chap. X., Leaf 143.) 
The Tibetan version runs thus :— 
TASS STS 
REA SF SATA NS I 
(A.S. MSS., Kangyur, Mdo, Vol. V., Leaf 293.) 
.“ Katyayana is an author of Sitra, so also is Yajfiavalkya.” 
1 The Sanskrit manuscript reads qyaqy), The reading QTTTew is 
restored from Tibetan, 
