44,4 LANGUAGES, &c. OF THE 



six great Manusid Buddhas (Nos. 50 to 5&) the name of Sakya Sinha, 

 the seventh and last is given in my list, though not found at that place in the 

 Lalita Vistdra : probably because Sakya had not, when that work was com- 

 piled, become Nirvdn and a Taihagata in the proper sense. His name, 

 though occurring before, is notwithstanding, re-inserted in my catalogue in 

 that place, in order to make up the complement of the now famous 6V;?/a Bud- 

 dha Manushi. Before each distinct series of names, the work, from which 

 it is derived, is uniformly noted. 



In the works cited, many more names, besides those given in the cata- 

 logue, are to be found, and from the whole of the books which have been pro- 

 cured and transmitted to Calcutta, hundreds of new names might be drawn. 

 In the Samadhi Raja,* Sarvartha Siddha, fSAKYA, before he became a 

 Buddha,) is asked by Maitreya and Vajra Pani, how he acquired Samadhi 

 Jnydn : In reply, he begins by naming one hundred and twenty Tathdgatas, who 

 instructed him therein in his former births, and at the conclusion of this enu- 

 meration of Buddhas, Sarvartha Siddha observes, he has given so many 

 names exempli gratia, but that his instructors were really no less in number 

 than eighty crores. There is a verse in the Aparimita Dharani (to be found 

 in many other, and higher authorities) purporting that " the Buddhas who 

 have been, are, and will be, are more numerous than the grains of sand on the 

 banks of the Ganges." Some of these Buddhas sprang divinely, not genera- 

 lively from other Buddhas ; some from Akds, and some from the Lotos. 

 These are in general evident nonentities, in regard to chronology and his- 

 tory : yet it is often most difficult to distinguish them from their more sub- 

 stantial compeers, the origin of the latter having been frequently traced up to 

 Heaven by the vanity of superstition, while its grovelling genius, no less fre- 



* I have this list before me extracted from the Samadhi Raja ; but I do not think it worth 

 while to add it to the lists already given. 



