6 Abstract of the Contents of the Dul-va. [Jaw. 



On the death of Sa'kya, Kasyapa, the head of the Baud'dhas, 

 directs 500 superior monks to make a compilation of the doctrines 

 of their master. The Do is also compiled by Ananda ; the Dul-vd 

 by Up a li ; and the Ma-moon, Abhidharma, or Prujnd-pdramita by 

 himself. He presides over the sect at Rdjagriha till his death. 



Ananda succeeds as hierarch. On his death his reliques are divided 

 between the Lichckivis and the king of Magadha ; and two chatty as 

 are built for their reception, one at Allahabad, the other at Pataliputra. 



One hundred years after the disappearance of Sa'kya, his religion is 

 carried into Kashmir. 



One hundred and ten years after the same event, in the reign of 

 Asoka, king of Pataliputra, anew compilation of the laws of Sa'kya 

 was prepared by 700 monks, at Yangs-pa-chen (Allahabad). 



The twelfth and thirteenth volumes contain supplementary rules and 

 instructions, as communicated by Sakya to Upali, his disciple, in an- 

 swer to the inquiries of the latter. 



We shall be better prepared, upon the completion of the catalogue 

 of the whole of the Kdh-gyur, to offer any remarks upon the doctrines 

 it inculcates, or the historical facts it may be supposed to preserve. It 

 is therefore rather premature to make any observations upon the present 

 analysis, confined as that is to but one division of the work, and un- 

 accompanied by extractor translation ; but we may perhaps be permit- 

 ted to inquire what new light it imparts, as far as it extends, to the date 

 and birth-place of Sa'kya. 



Any thing like real chronology is, if possible, more unknown in 

 Baud'dha than Brahmanical writings ; and it is in vain therefore to 

 expect any satisfactory specification of the date at which the Buddha 

 Sakya flourished. We find however that 110 years after his death, 

 Asoka, king of Pataliputra, reigned : now in the Vishna Purdna and 

 one or two other Puranas, the second king of Magadha from Chandra- 

 gupta, or Sandrocoptos, bears the title of Asoka, or Asokaverddhana. 

 If this be the prince intended, Sakya lived about 430 years before the 

 Christian aera, which is about one century posterior to the date usually 

 assigned for his appearance. It is not very different, however, from 

 that stated by the Siamese, to Mr. Crawfurd. " By their account, 

 his death took place in the first year of the sacred aera, being the year 

 of the little snake ; on Tuesday, being the full moon of the sixth month 

 of the year. The year 1822 was the year 2364 of the aera in question, 

 and as Bud'dha is stated by them to have died when 80 years of age, 

 his birth by this account took place 462 years before the Christian aera." 

 Crawfurds Siam, 367. 



