JOURNAL 
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THE ASITIATIC SOCIETY. 
No. 20.—August, 1833. 
1.— Origin of the Shakya race, translated from the y (La), or the 26th, 
volume of the mDo class in the Ka-gyur, commencing on the 161st 
leaf. By M. Alex. Csoma de Koris. 
On a certain occasion, when SuHaxya (in the text Nanda’ 
Adar" gar Quy Sangs-rgyas bchom-|dan hdas ; Sanscrit, Buddha. Bha- 
gavan) was in the Nyagrodha grove (S. A’rama), near Ser-skya Gzhé 
(S. Capilavastu), many of the Shdkyas that inhabited Capilavdstu 
being gathered together in their council-house, questioned one another, 
saying ; Shés-dan-tak ! (sayraqanm, ‘intelligent ones :” an address.) 
** Whence sprang the Shakyarace? What is their origin? What 
is the cause or reason thereof? And what is the ancient national 
descent of the Shakyas ? If any one should come to us, and ask us 
about those’points, we could not tellhim whence the Shdkyas originated. 
Come, let us go to Bhagavdn and ask him on the subject, that we may 
abide by his saying.” 
Thereupon a very great number of the Shakyas inhabiting Capila- 
vdstu, went to the place where Buagava’n (bcehom-ldan hdas) was, and 
after having made their salutation by prostrating themselves at his feet, 
sat aside. 
Having addressed him by this term qSarxy, bésun-pa (Venerable 
Sir!) they repeat again, how they had been assembled, on what subject 
they had talked, and how they had resolved to come before him; and 
then they begged of him, that he would acquaint them with those things 
that they might afterwards tell them to others. 
BuacavaAn thinking that, should he himself tell the history of 
the ancient national descent of the Shakyas, then the Tirthikas and 
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