183^] Examination of the Pdli Buddhistical Annals. 509 



after the death of Sa'kya. In this instance, however, from the 

 absence of names, there is no means of ascertaining whether the revi- 

 sion in question, applies to that of Buddhaghoso, or to that of any 

 other individual. From the date assigned, as well as mention being 

 made of Kaniska, the author of that revision, may possibly be Na'- 

 gabjuna, the Nagase'no of PdU annals, whose history T have touched 

 upon in a former article. The foregoing extract from the Muhdwanso 

 does certainly state that Buddhaghoso returned to India, and that 

 the Atthakathd were not extant then, at the time he departed to 

 Ceylon, but I have no where met with any intimation of the propaga- 

 tion of his version in India ; while in the " Essai sur le P0 par 

 Messrs. Burnoup et Lassen," it is shown that Buddhaghoso did 

 visit the eastern peninsula, taking his compilation with him. 



5thly, in the Tibetan version of the Kdh-gyur consisting of one 

 hundred volumes*, while the Pali version of the Pitakattayan does 

 not exceed 4,500 leaves, which would constitute seven or eight vo- 

 lumes of ordinary size (though bound up in Ceylon in various forms 

 for convenience of reference), the subdivisions of which are hereafter 

 given. This difference of bulk would be readily accounted for, if 

 Mr. Korosi had explained whether the accounts of the Convoca- 

 tions he gives were found in the text of the Kdh-gyur which he was 

 analyzing, or in a separate commentary. If they were found in the 

 text, it necessarily follows that the commentaries (which alone could 

 contain an account of Convocations held subsequent to the death of 

 Sa'kya) must have become blended with the entire version of the 

 Tibetan text, in the same manner that the " Jdtakan" division of the 

 Pali version in Ceylon, has become blended with the Atthakathd 

 appertaining to it. By this blending together of the text and the 

 commentary of the Jdtakan, that section has been swelled into three 

 books of nine hundred leaves, instead of constituting the fourth part 

 of one book, comprised in perhaps about one hundred leaves. 



I have not yet obtained any accurate table of the contents of the 

 whole series of Buddhaghoso's Atthakathd. They are very volumi- 

 nous, as may be readily imagined, when it is considered that they fur- 

 nish both a commentary and a glossary for the entire Pitakattayan. 



The Atthakathd on the whole of the Winayopitako is called the 

 Samantapdsddikd. It commences w T ith an account of the three con- 

 vocations. For the Satiapitako there is a separate Atthakathd 



* These volumes contain much less than might be thought by those who had 

 not seen them, being printed in a very large type, — Ed. 

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