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Buddha drya shravahdnam ; Namo Bodhisatwdndm, dasha-bhumi pi'atis'hi'M- 

 teshwardndm, Bodhisatwdndm, mahd satwdndm, tadyathd : Om ! Khakha khdhi 

 hhahi, kc." Descriptions of all sorts of mandalas, rites, ceremonies. From 

 leaf 281 — 300. Astrology, related by Sha'kya. The several Nacshatras 

 (constellations or stars) — Plucky and unlucky months and days — the characters 

 of men born in any of them. Leaf 426. Predictions by Sha'kya, 

 respecting the birth of some great men in India, that have lived several 

 ages after him, as Pa'n'i'ni, Tsandea Gupta (Tib. Zla-va-shas-pa), 

 also Na'garjuna (Tib. Klu-sgriib) and A'rya Sanga (Tib. Hphags-pa- 

 thogs-med) two principal philosophers, of whom there are many works in the 

 Stan-gtjur, and who are the Aristotle and Plato of the Buddhists ; the 

 founders of a reasonable, theoretical, and practical philosophy ; the heads of 

 the MadhydmiJea and Yogdchdrya schools. 



Note. — Na'garjuna is generally supposed to have flourished four hundred years after the death 

 of Sha'kya, to have been born in the southern part of India, and to have lived 600 years. From 

 some chronological dates, I know that A'rya Sanga lived in the sixth or seventh century after 

 Jesus Christ. 



This tantra is a very learned and interesting treatise, and is frequently 

 cited by Tibetan writers. The scene of it has been placed in the highest 

 heaven, but it is mixed with many true historical facts, with respect to the 

 lives of princes that have either favoured Buddhism, or persecuted the Bud- 

 dhists in India. Translated by order of the Tibetan king or prince Byang- 

 ch'hub-hod, (at Tholing, in Guge, above Garhwal and Kamdon, in the 

 eleventh century) by Kuma'ra Kalasha, and Gehrig Sha'kya Logros. 



16. Sans. Siddhi eha vira. Tib. ^''^ Tipah-vo-gchig-tu-grub-pa. From 

 leaf 4t^d> — 4-99. The perfect or ready hero or champion. Mystical doctrine on 

 purification from all imperfections — for obtaining emancipation. Mandalas, 

 ceremonies, mantras. Translated by Dipankara Sri Jna'na, and Ge'vay 



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