2 PROF. SATIS CHANDRA VIDYABHUSANA 



No. IO. 



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HPhags-pa gnas-brtan-chen-po sgra-gcan-hdsin-la na-mo, 

 " Salutation to the noble great saint Rahula." 



No. 3. 



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HPhags-pa gnas-brtan-chen-po nags-na-gnas-la na-mo. 

 * " Salutation to the noble great saint Vanavasi." 



No. 9. 



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HPhags-pa gnas-brtan-chen-po ba-ku-la-la na-mo. 



" Salutation to the noble great saint Bakula." 



Besides these rive there are eleven 1 other images which too were brought from 

 near Gyantse ; but they are now with Colonel Waddell in England. 

 A short account of the Sixteen Sthaviras is given below : — 



1. Anganika — also called Afigiraja (Tib. Yan-lag-hbyun) — belongs to the Kailasa 

 mountain, holds in his hands an incense-censer and a fly-whisk made of a yak's tail, and 

 sits surrounded by a circle of one thousand and three hundred arhats. 



2. Ajita — (Tib. Ma-pham-pa) — belongs to Rishi Parvata Guha, bears his hands in 

 dhyanamudra (tranquil) attitude and sits surrounded by a circle of one hundred arhats. 



3. Vanavasi — (Tib. Nags-na-gnas) — belongs to Saptaparni Guha, has two hands, 

 one holding a fly-whisk of a yak's tail and the other with a pointed index finger, and sits 

 surrounded by a circle of one thousand and four hundred arhats. 



4. Kalika — (Tib. Dus-ldan) — belongs to Tamralipti, wears a golden ear-ring and 

 sits surrounded by a circle of eleven hundred arhats. 



5. Vajrayani-putra — (Tib. Rdo-rje-mo-yi-bu) — belongs to Ceylon, possesses two 

 hands, one of which has a pointing finger and the other holds a drum-stick, and sits sur- 

 rounded by a circle of one thousand arhats. 



1 In Chinese Buddhist books the saints or Sthaviras are named as follow : — 



12. Pindola (or Pindola Bharadvaja) ; 7. Kanakavatsa (or Svarnavatsa) ; 8. Bharadvaja ( Kanaka ?) ; 16. Supinda (Acala ?) ; 

 Nakula Bakula ?) ; 6. Bhadra (or Bhadrika) ; 4. Kalika; 5. Vajrayaniputra ; 15. Sivaka (Gopaka ?) ; 13. Handaka (Panthaku ?) ; 

 10. Rahula; 14. Nagasena; 1. Inghata (Anganika?); 3. Punarvasu (Vanavasi?); 2. Ajita; and 11. Cntahandaka (Ciita- 

 panthaka?). 



In Tibetan these sixteen saints are called Gnas-brtan ; in Pali they would be called Thera and in Sanskrit Sthavira. The 

 Tibetan word literally signifies a sage who is " firm in his position ; " the Pali word denotes a monk who has passed a spotless life 

 at least for ten years after admission into the priesthood ; while the Sanskrit word is explained in Brahmanic books to signify 

 one who is senior not in age but in knowledge. Thus Manu says : — 



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(Manusawihita, Chap. II). 



