FRAGMENTS FROM CHINESE TURKISTAN. 15 



Professor Leumann has drawn up a table of the manuscript leaves examined by 

 him. The beginning of the work has not as yet been found. The existing leaves 

 contain more or less extensive portions of twenty-five chapters. Four of these are 

 represented in the Calcutta materials. 



The first line of fol. 325 contains the last stanza of a chapter. It is numbered 

 372. According to Professor Leumann the twenty-fourth chapter of his manuscript 

 must have contained 372 stanzas. It is therefore probable that the first stanza of the 

 Calcutta manuscript is the last one of that chapter, which in my edition will be 

 marked as number I. 



The remaining stanzas of fol. 325, and the stanzas contained in fols. 329, 334 and 

 335, are numbered from 1 to [i]i, from [4J2 to 53, and from 90 to [n]3, respectively, 

 the tens and hundreds being commonly omitted, though I have added them within 

 brackets. I have already mentioned that some words occurring in these verses are 

 also found in stanzas carrying corresponding numbers in Professor Leumann's materials. 

 But here they belong to the twenty-third chapter. It therefore seems as if the order 

 of the chapters in this case is not the same in the two manuscripts. This portion of 

 my materials I have given the number II. 



The third fragment is found on fol. 369, and has been numbered III. It contains 

 the stanzas 9-20 of a chapter, which I cannot identify in Professor Leumann's table. 



The fourth fragment, numbered IV in my edition, contains the first twelve stanzas 

 of a chapter, which I cannot identify. It forms the contents of fol. 371. 



I am not in a position to give a complete translation of the Calcutta materials. 

 I have however accepted the invitation of the Asiatic Society to edit them, because 

 I think it is advisable to make them accessible as early as possible. More collabora- 

 tors are urgently needed for the investigation of this new Aryan language. I know 

 very well that I shall make many mistakes, which I might perhaps avoid if I would 

 keep my edition back till I have got fuller materials. But I think that the individual 

 scholar in such a case has a duty to give others an opportunity of collaborating, and 

 that he has no right to reserve the study of such new and interesting materials to 

 himself. 



My edition consists of a transliteration of the manuscript, with an interlinear 

 translation of such words as I understand. Then follows a list of words and forms 

 with explanations and notes. For these I have made use of the materials contained 

 in Professor Leumann's excellent study and also of the Central Asian versions of the 

 Vajracchedika and the Aparimitayuhsutra, which I am editing for Dr. Hoernle The 

 index has been arranged in the order of the Latin alphabet. Only the sign a has been 

 reckoned as i. 



TEXT. 



I. 



Fol. 325. 



cu aysu ttu hvatanau byuttaima avassa balysa hamane 



As I that saying understand , certainly a-Buddha I-shall-become, 



