248 II. Sastri — "Remarks on Bodhisattvavadana Kalpalata. [Dec. 



2. The translation of the Ain-i-Akbari, by Lt.-Col. Jarrott, from 

 where it was left off by the late Mr. iilochmann. 



3. The Riaz-us-Salatin, or the Garden of Kings, Persian text and 

 English translation. By Maulvi Abdul Haq Abid, Professor of Arabic 

 a lcI Persian in the Calcutta Madrasah College. 



4. The Brihaddharmapurana, one of the principal Upapuranas, to 

 be edited by Pandit Hara Prasad Sastri. 



5. The Bodhisatvavaddna Kalpalata, by Kshemendra, to be edited 

 by Babu Sarat Chandra Das. 



With regard to the Bodhisattvavadana Kalpalata, Pandit Hara 

 Prasad Sastri remarked as follows : — 



The three copies of the Bodhisattvavadana Kalpalata which we 

 have in Cambridge and in Calcutta are incomplete. They contain, so to 

 say, only the second volume of the work, i. e., from 50 to 108th Pallava. 



At the end of the colophon, in Add. 913, Cambridge Library, the 

 scribe declares that the first half of the work is lost and could not be 

 found anywhere.* 



In noticing an old manuscript of the same work in the Asiatic 

 Society's Library Dr. Rajendralal Mitra says that " the codex under 

 notice is obviously incomplete as it commences from the 51st chapter 

 or pallava. It appears, however, from the presence of an invocatory 

 verse at the beginning of the chapter and the absence of all such in- 

 vocation at the beginning of subsequent chapters that the work was 

 divided into two parts, of which the first included 50 chapters and the 

 second 58." 



From the similarity of names one might at first be inclined to 

 infer that the Bodhisattvavadana Kalpalata is the sequel of another work 

 called the Bodhisattvavadana, but the following facts show that those 

 two works are quite distinct. 



In Add. 1306, Cambridge Library, a palm leaf manuscript copied in 

 the reign of Anantamalla of Nepal in, N. S. 422, A. D. 1302, we get for 

 the first time a glimpse of the existence of the first part of the work. 

 The first 174 leaves of that manuscript are lost and the 175th leaf begins 

 with the middle of the 41st Avaddna and continues to the end of the 

 49th and then begins the second half. The entire manuscript was in 

 existence in 1302 and since then the first volume has been missing. 



Further there is a metrical list appended at the end of the manu- 

 script in the Society's Library which gives the names and contents of the 

 avaddnas of the first volume. On examination, I find that, with 

 one exception, all the names mentioned in that list agree with the names 



