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[N. 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 Sutra 
may be gathered from the following verses occurring in the 10th 
Chapter of the work :— 
Arata a agafa: fuat fac: gatufa: | 
RaataMtatss ata a facst | faa: | 
amas agqua: faatfa a faatae:? | 
ataqata agent atadwagga: | 
(A.S. MSS. p. 143). 
The Tibetan version of the above runs thus :— 
ear S aR E55 | 
Se URNS SIN 
eal, 
ACF gaa ANNA || 
WEAR SISTAR SASSY TC | 
Ways STL SATS | 
STS FTAA | 
FAA AATATS Sarl || 
(Kangyur, Mdo, Vol. V., Leaf 292-293, A.S. MSS.) 
The above passages may be translated thus :— 
“My mother is Vasumati, my father the Brahman named 
Prajapati; I belong to the same clan as Katyayana; my name is 
Jina, the passionless one, I was born at Campa. Somagupta sprung 
from the Lunar race is (in fact) my father and he my grandfather 
too.” 
1 The orig. is fafste{ which should be facet for the Tibetan equi- 
yalent is to 747 
BY a5) 
2 The meaning of this line ig not clear. 
