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AsokaAvaddn, an Avadan Sdstra : an account of the Triratna, or Buddha, Dharma, Sanga, 

 also of the CAmV^a*, with the fruits of worshipping them: verse: speaker Upagupta Bkihsfmka : 

 hearer Asoka Raja. 



Bhadrakalpa Avadan, an Avadan Sdstra : an account of the actions of Sakya, and of the 

 wisdom which he thereby acquired : verse : speaker Upagupta Bhikshuka : hearer Asoka Raja. 



Jataha Maid, a Jataka Sdstra : an account of the various meritorious actions of Sakya in his 

 several births, prior to his becoming a Tathdgata : verse and prose : speaker Sakya : hearer Anam- 

 da Bhikshu. 



Manichura, an Avadan : an account of the birth of Sakya, and of the fruits of his actions : 

 prose : speaker and hearer as above. 



Dwdvinsati Avadan, an Avaddn Sdstra: an account of the fruits of building, worshipping and 

 circumambulating Chaityas : verse and prose : speaker Sakya : hearer MAiTnEYA. 



Nandi-mukha Swaghosha, an Avaddn : an account of the great fast, called Vasundhara ; and 

 of the fruit of observing it : prose: speaker Sakya : hearer Ananda. 



Bodhi-charyd, an Avaddn Sastra, of the sort called Kuvya ; contains a highly laudatory ac- 

 count of Dana Parmita, and of the Bodhi-charyd, (or Buddhist duties), verse : speaker M aitreya : 

 hearer Sudhana Kumara. 



Karuna Pundarika, an Avaddn : an account of Arinemi Raja ; of Sumadra Renu, Purohit, 

 of Ratna Garbha, Tathdgata; and of Avalokiteswara, (i.e. Padma Pdni Bodhisatwa), 

 prose: speaker Sakya : hearers Maitreya, &c. 



Chandomrita Mala, a treatise of prosody, tlie measures illustrated by verses laudatory of 

 Sakya Siniia : verse and prose: the author Amrita Bhikshu. 



Lokeswara Sataka, a hundred verses in praise of Padma Pani : verse : author Va jra Datta, 

 Bhikshu. 



Saraka Dhdra, with a comment : a 7fat;ya in praise oi Arya Tdrd, Buddha Sakti: verse: 

 author Sarvajna Mitrapada, Bhikshu. 



Aparimita Dh'rani, an Upadesa, of the sort called Dhdrani :* contains many Dhdranis ad- 

 dressed to the Buddhas, who are immortal (aparimtayusha Tathdgata,) prose : speaker Sakya : 

 hearer Anand Bhikshu. 



Dhdrani Sangraha, a collection of Dhdranis, as Maha Vairochanas D. 3Iaha Manjusri's D. 

 and those of many otlier Buddhas: verse: speaker Sakya : hearer Vajra Pani. 



* Dhdranis, tliough derived from the Upadesa, are exoteric. Tiiey are short significant Rrms 

 of prayer, bluiil;ir to the Panclidnga of the Bralimans: whoever constantly repeats, or wears, mada 

 up in little lockets, a Dhdrani, possesses a charmed life. v 



