PREFACE. 
451 
Chapter. 
Total number of verses 
in each chapter. 
Number of verses. 
Number of verses in 
the fragments. 
XII. 
14. 
262 to 275. 
265 to 272 
= 8. 
XIII. 
25 - 
276 to 300. 
288 to 300 
= 13 - 
XIV. 
25 - 
301 to 325. 
301 to 21 
= 21. 
XV. 
25 - 
326 to 330. 
343 to 50. 
= 8. 
XVI. 
25 - 
351 to 375. 
351 , 352. 
= 2. 
129. 
Manjunatha and Thwanimmathappa, the joint Indian and Tibetan translators of 
the text of Catuhsatika, say that this work was composed in the Sinhalese country 
on the other side of the great sea. It also says that the country of the composition 
of the work is now, at the time of the translation, under the possession of the Mus- 
salmans. Nanjio says that Arya Deva was a native of South India (not Ceylon as in 
Eitel) and a disciple of Nagarjuna. There is a life of Arya Deva in five leaves transla- 
ted by Kumarajiva into Chinese between a.d. 401 and 409. Aryadeva is also called 
Nilanettra, on account of his having two spots, as large as the eyes, on the cheeks. It 
is also said by Nanjio that his real name was Candra Kirti. I think that the later 
writers confounded the author with the commentator. 
Chandra Kirti, the commentator, was an opponent of Candragomi, who lived 
between 630-940, viz., during Yuan Chauang’s stay in Eastern India. He quotes in 
his commentary on Madhyamakakarika from Tathagataguhyaka , one of thepdharma 
of the Nepalese and a work of the Tantrika Sahajia sect. His commentary was trans- 
lated into Tibetan by the Indian Pandit Bamse Ratna-vajra and Tama Thwaniinma- 
thappa. Tike the text the commentary has no Chinese translation. 
