252 Hara Prasad Shastri— Old Nepalese Manuscripts. [No. 3, 
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A drama describing tbe self-sacrificing spirit of Harischandra can- 
not but be interesting to a Buddhist audience. 
The fifth work is S'uddhiratndkara, by Chande^vara, The work 
has been noticed by the late Baja Rajendralala Mitra in his Notices 
of Sanskrit Manuscripts, Yol. VII, No. 2384, as belonging to one 
Bhaiyalala Jha, of Dhamdaha-gram in Pnrnia. The India Office Library 
has a very imperfect copy of the work, in which both the beginning 
and the end are missing. The MS. is one of the seven great works of 
Chande^vara’s digest. Pages 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 39, 77, and some leaves 
at the end, in our MS. are missing. The MS. is a much better one 
than the India Office copy, which is in modern Bengali characters ; 
while ours is in ancient Bengali, and may, on palseological grounds, be 
referred to the 14th century. 
The sixth work is Buddha-lcapdla-tika. This is a commentary on the 
Buddhakapala — a Buddhist tantric work not yet obtained. The MS. 
was copied by a pupil of the author— Abh ay akara, a monk belonging 
to the Vihara of Yikramasila. The work is complete in \4<patalas. The 
name of the commentary is Abhaya-paddhati. On palseographical 
grounds the work may be referred to the palmiest days of Vikramasila, 
in the 11th and 12th centuries of the Christian era. 
The seventh work is Sangita-ratnakara, in ancient Bengali character, 
dated 362, i. e., 1481 A. D. The work is complete in three chapters, 
and deals with instrumental and vocal music and dancing. It has 
marginal notes in Nepalese handwriting. It has already been printed 
and published at Calcutta. 
The eighth is Samputodbhava, written in Buddhist Sanskrit prose in 
the style of the Prajndpdramitd. The MS. is complete, the first two 
pages are slightly injured, so portions of them are mounted with paper 
in which the injured portions of the text have been restored in a later 
hand. It is a Tantric work consisting of ten chapters, each divided into 
three to four prakaranas. It was copied in 146 of the Newari era, i. e., 
1026 A.D. 
The ninth work is Vajradak-tantra. This is a Tantrik work in 51 
patalas, treating of mystic mantras and mystic observances. The invo- 
cation of serpents, Dakinis, dead bodies, &c., forms the chief feature of 
the work. The work is incomplete and breaks off with the 225th leaf. 
The tenth work of the collection is a beautiful copy of the Prajnd- 
pdramitd in 8,000 slokas. The work is on palm leaves pressed between 
two wooden boards, with sticks inserted through holes in place of 
