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The second book in the 22nd volume, entitled Achyuta Raja, gives 

 an account of the periods of time prevailing in the different Loka- 

 dhdtus, or regions of different Buddhas. 



The region of Sakya is the Sahaloka dhdtu, the world of mortals 

 under the viceregal supremacy of Brahma. In the same volume 

 occurs the Sapta Buddhaka Sutra, in which the seven Buddhas "Vi- 

 pasyi and the rest, at the solicitation of a Bodhisatwa. appear and 

 communicate Mantras severally for averting evil. Three other tracts 

 are successively devoted to eight, ten. and twelve Buddhas, but these 

 are the holy personages of the region, and have no connexion with 

 Sakya and his direct predecessors. 



The twentieth work, in the 22nd volume, commences the Saddherma 

 Smrityupasthdna, or the influence of recollection over the discharge of 

 true virtue. The work is continued through the whole of the 23rd and 

 24th volumes, and the greater part of the 25th, and may be considered 

 as the moral code of Sakya. In this he describes the ten virtuous 

 and ten vicious acts, and their consequences ; the different degrees of 

 transmigration ; the scale of rewards and punishments ; the division of 

 heaven and hell ; as well as the suffering experienced in this world ; and 

 illustrates his subject by numerous legendary tales. These volumes 

 contain little speculative matter, and belong to the external or practi- 

 cal portion of the Bauddha doctrines. The last portion of the 25th 

 volume contains, amongst other treatises, two belonging to the Esoteric 

 doctrine — on Sunyatd and Mahd Sunyatd, emptiness and great 

 emptiness, or the total unreality of material existence. 



The 1st article in the 26th volume is an account of the life and 

 actions of Sakya, and of the origin of the Sakya race. The details 

 agree generally with those in the 3rd volume of theDuL-vA, and in the 

 2nd of the Do class, or Lalita Vistdra. 



The 29th volume is occupied with four tracts, to three of which the 

 term Avaddna is applied : they are of a legendary character: thus, the 

 Suhdrika Avaddna narrates (he story of a divinity of one of the in- 

 ferior heavens, named Suharika, foreseeing that he is to become a hog 

 in his next migration ; his anticipated degradation plunges him into 

 great distress, when he is advised by Indra to have recourse to Sakya: 

 he does so, and upon his death, not only escapes his threatened humi- 

 liation, but is elevated to a higher heaven, or that of Tnshita. 



The 30th volume contains 25 treatises, most of them legendary ; the 

 first five are in commendation of charity, the 11th is a narrative of 

 Sard'ulanasa, the son of Trisanku, a f« rmer chief of the Sudra 

 race, who by his talents obtained the daughter of a celebrated Bruh- 



