160° Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. | June, "1905. 
The work consists of ten Parivarta or chapters named re- 
spectively as, (1) Ravanadhyesana, (2) Sarvadharmasamuccaya, 
(3) Anityata, (4) Abhisamaya, (5) Tathagatanityanityatva, (6) 
Ksanika, (7) Nairmanika, (8) Mamsabhaksana, (9) Dharani, and 
(10) the tenth chapter which bears no special name. 
Throughout the Lankavatara Sitra the speaker 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 Lanka, prayed to Buddha for the solution of two 
questions, vz., (1) what is the distinction between dharma and 
adharma; and (2) how could one pass beyond both dharma and 
adharma. Buddha’s answers to these questions form the subject- 
“TSH MATA MHTAATE— 
qe fafaaararat quray aa yTA | 
wat factreare frraurare efter: Wo 
(saauadge, chapter on 3teawa) | 
The passage referred to here occurs with a little variation twice in the 
Lankavatara Sutra (in Chapter II. p. 50, and Chapter X. p. 115 respectively 
of the Bengal Asiatic Society’s manuscript) :— 
ger fatqararat Surat aaTyTA | 
qa Aas Batwargre” frraqurarg Strat: | 
(MSIAT Qa, » Gicay, HF ve) | 
qer frequratat Qua ATV IAIe | 
Faeatwargre faraurary Shar: |i 
(AFIAT Ma, lo yea, J ww.) | 
The Tibetan versions of the passages run respectively as follows :— 
Wa a 
AUN dar qr senna yc’ | 
BG ZL’ LG'eR' a LAYS | 
VOL YAR S35 | 
VAG ASS ~ 
DOR OO Ay QL Aye || 
(Kangyur, Mdo., Vol. V. Leaf 150, A.S. MSS.) 
ok Wa i) 
BQ’ AUN LQ AE aN’ | 
LEASH Fay A HN RAHA' 4 | 
VOL SAV ARG SAG | 
EVG LNG ~ @ ? =) ee 
OU GG Oo as YI OAS | | 
(Kangyur, Mdo, Vol. V. Leaf, 253, A.S. MSS.) 
“Of things that are discerned by intellect no self-existence ‘can be 
ascertained ; therefore they are shown to be inexplicable and essenceless.” 
