1855.] A brief Notice of the Subhdshita Batna Nidhi. 141 



A brief Notice of the Subhdshita Hatna Nidhi of Saskya Pandita, with 

 extracts and translations by the late M. A. Csoma de Koitosi. 



The following paper was written so far back as 1833, and would have been 

 published in continuation of the series which appeared in the earlier Numbers of 

 this Journal, had not the death of the writer thrown difficulties in the way of bring- 

 ing out the Tibetan text. These difficulties have been removed through the kind 

 assistance of Dr. Campbell of Darjiling, who has had the proofs corrected by Lama 

 Aden Cheboo at that station, who had studied the Buddhist religion and Tibetan 

 literature at the monastery of Menduling in Thibet. 



Cs. de Korosi refers to leaf 23, page 44 of the Index of the Kah-gyar, which 

 collection he had previously noticed in Vol. II. of the Journal. — Ed. 



This work was composed by the celebrated " Sa-skya Pandita" 



(called in Tibetan, S^WiT*^ 3 )' VWI TZ W*I K'un dgah 

 rgyal-mts'han dpal bzang-po ; in Sanskrit, Ananda Dwaja Shri Bha- 

 dra), who flourished in the 1 3th century, in the time of Ginghis-khan 

 and his successors. He resided in the Saskya monastery (a Con- 

 vent, in Middle Tibet, in the province of Ts'ang, one hundred days' 



journey distant from Teshi Lungpo (^ST^N^ 3 )" 2 ^). Tnat Great 

 Lama (called: "hPhags-pa hGro inGon" Q*JW*TQr*f=fo) to 

 whom Kublai-khan (the emperor of China, of the Mongol dynasty, 

 in the last half of the 13th century) had granted the whole Middle 

 Tibet (or U-tsang) was the nephew (or a brother's son) of this 

 learned Pandita. Their descendants possess now also the above 

 mentioned Monastery (with some small appurtenances) and are next 

 in dignity after the two great Lamas of Lassa and Teshi Lungpo. 

 The Sa-skya Monastery (or Convent) is one of those places in Tibet, 

 (•Vg T ) where many Sanskrit books (taken or transported from 

 India) may be found now also. 



