A PART OF THE TIBETAN SACRED WORKS. 



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knowledge. He endeavours to excite dissensions, and to make divisions 

 among the priests — as also among the priestesses, through /Sbom-Dgah-mo. 



Leaf 216. Stories on the multiplicity of clothes and garments of the 

 female religious persons. Prohibitions against them by Shakya. 



Leaf 272. The king of Kalinga sends to G^sal-bgyal, the king of 

 KosaJa, a piece of fine linen cloth, as a present. It comes afterwards into 

 the hands of G^tsug-Dgah-mo, (a lewd or wicked priestess) she puts it 

 on, appears in public, but, from its thin texture, seems to be naked. The 

 priestesses are prohibited from accepting or wearing such thin clothes. 



Leaf 2^1. Mention is made of the four Fe^/a5 of the Brahmans. Leaf 

 284-5. Several terms peculiar to the loom, and to other mechanical 

 arts, are enumerated. Defects in the body of a nun. Censure of others. 

 Leaf 286. Moral tales on secret slander. 



Leaf 302. Several parts of the Dulvd class enumerated. 



Leaf 331. Kun-tu-rgyu, " going every where," (Sans. Parivrdjaka) is 

 said to be the same with Grangs-chan, (Sans. Sdnlchya). 



Leaf 362. Names of several diseases. The rest of the volume is 

 occupied with stories respecting the conduct of the nuns. Several rules to 

 be learnt and observed. The scene of all these stories is, in general, M.nyan- 

 yod, (Sans. Shr&vasti in Kosala). 



The five last volumes (marked with the letters ^ , s>, F, % and of the 

 Tib. alphabet) were translated from Sanscrit into Tibetan, first, (in the 

 9th century) by Jinamitra, a pandit of Cashmir, of the Vaihhashika philo- 

 sophical sect, and by KLUHi-BGYAL-iffxs'HAN, a Tibetan Lotsdva, or interpre- 

 ter. Other translators also are mentioned. 



Tenth and eleventh ( a Tlia, and ^ Da) volumes of the Dulvd, 



In 60 books, of ivhich the lOlh volume contains 17, or 324 leaves — a7id the 



llth, 33 books, or 708 leaves. 



These volumes are entitled in 



Tibetan : — Hdid-va-p'hran-tsliegs-kyi-Gzhi. Sanscrit : — Vindya Kshu- 

 draka Vastu. 



English : — " Miscellaneous minutiae on religious discipline." 



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