246 Hara Prasad Sliastri— Old Nepalese Manuscripts. [No. 3, 
The most important works of this collection are two; namely a 
commentary on the celebrated work on Buddhist philosophy entitled 
Bodhicharya vatara, noticed by the late Raja Rajendralal Mitra on 
page 47 of his work on the Nepalese Buddhist MSS. Mr. Bendall in 
his Cambridge Catalogue ” says that this work is the 9th Section of the 
well-known Asokavaddnam&ld. It is divided into 10 chapters, and is 
perhaps the only work in which four of the six pdraJtds h^ve been 
fully explained. Though it is a part of the Asokavadana, it is always 
regarded as a separate work on account of the importance of its philo- 
sophical doctrines, which are couched-as all such doctrines are-in a 
anguage scarcely to be understood without a commentary. And such 
a commentary is furnished in one of the twelve works in the new 
collection. 
. T f e comment ^7 ^ by Praj Sahara who is styled Bandit a BMJcshn, 
e., a learned monk Babb Sarat Chunder Das tells me that Prajnakara 
was a famous disciple of the still more famous Dipankara S'ri Jiiana of 
Vikramasila who introduced the reformed Buddhist faith into Tibet 
where lie is known as Atisha. This is probably correct. The MS was 
annearsk h^’ p°“ USe ° f the P hra8e Prajndkarapdddndm, 
veai 19S tT Z’ 111 " ^P 16 ’ TllS Work copied in the 
yeai 19S of the Nepalese era, t. e„ 1078 A.D., and Dipahkara’s journey 
to Tibet is said to have been undertaken in the year 1066. Atislil 
was about seventy when he was invited to Tibet, and it is quite possible 
that one of his young disciples wrote a running commentary on one 
of the most important works of Buddhist philosophy, and that it was 
copied by a pupil of this disciple. 
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