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THE
JOURNAL OF THE
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ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.
TTEW SERIES.
VOLUME THE EIGHTH.
LONDON: TRUBNER AND
CO., 57
&
59,
MDCCCLXXVI.
LUDGATE HILL.
STEPHEN AUSTIN AND SONS,
PRINTERS, HERTFORD.
'
CONTENTS OF VOL. [new
VIII.
series.]
ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. Art.
I.
— Catalogue
PAG S
of Buddhist Sanskrit Manuscripts in the
Possession of the Royal Asiatic Society (Hodgson Collection).
By
Cowell and
Professors E. B.
J.
Eggellng Art. II.
— On
1
the Ruins of
Blakesley,
Sigiri
Esq.,
By
Ceylon.
in
Public
Works
T.
H.
Department,
Ceylon
Art. III.
53
—The Patimokkha, being the
Buddhist Office of the
Confession of Priests.
The
Translation, and Notes.
By
Text, with a
Pali J. F.
Dickson, M.A.,
sometime Student of Christ Church, Oxford, now of the Ceylon Civil Service
Art. IV.
62
— Notes on the Sinhalese Language.
No.
Proofs
2.
By
of the Sanskritic Origin of Sinhalese.
R. C.
Childers, late of the Ceylon Civil Service
Art. V.
—An
Account
of
the
Island
of
Bali.
131
By R.
Friederich Art. VI.
157
— The Pali Text of the Mahaparinihbana Sutta and Commentary, with a Translation.
By
Childers, late of the Ceylon Civil Service
R.
C.
219
— CONTEXTS.
IT
Art. Yir.
— The Northern Frontagers of China. The Kara
Art. VIII.
By H. H. Howorth
Khitai.
—Inedited Arabic
PAQE
Part III.
Coins.
II.
By Stanley Lane
Poole Art. IX.
— On
the
262
291
Form
of
Government under the Native
Sovereigns of Ceylon.
By
A. de Silva Ekana-
yaka, Mudaliyar of the Department of Public Instruction, Ceylon
Index
297 305
—
;
JOURNAL OF
THE ROYAL ASIATIC Art.
Catalogue of Buddhist Sanskrit Manuscripts in the
I.
Royal Asiatic Society ( Hodgson Collection). Professors E. B. Cowell and J. Eggeling.
possession of the
By The
manuscripts of Buddhist works described in the foHow-
ing pages were collected in Nepal by Mr. Brian Houghton Hodgson who has contributed so largely to the elucidation
—
of Northern
Buddhism
— and
presented by him to the Royal
The great importance
Asiatic Society in 1835 and 1836.
of a thorough examination of the Buddhist Sanskrit works
Northern India, both for Prakrit philology and for Buddhist research, is becoming more and more apparent and it seemed very desirable that the contents of this colof
lection,
works,
which, though deficient in is
perhaps the
finest
of
many
of the standard
manuscripts in
original
Europe, should become better known to scholars interested in these inquiries.
A
detailed analysis of the works
yond the scope of the present catalogue, as cases be extremely
difficult,
paring other copies. description
now
It
is
if
it
would
was bein
many
not impossible, without com-
hoped, however, that the brief
offered will, at least, suffice for the identifica-
tion of the works,
and will
for that reason be acceptable to
Sanskrit scholars.
The Newar era, in which many of these MSS. are dated, commenced in October, 880 a.d. This number has accordingly to be added to the Nepal date to obtain the correspond-
ing Christian year.
The material
of the
otherwise stated.
MSS.
By
consists of Indian paper, unless modern MSS. are intended such as
appear to have been written within the present century. VOL. VIII.
— [new series.]
1
CATALOGUE OF THE HODGSON COLLECTION
2
Ashtasahasrika Prajndpdramitd.
1.
204 palm
Complete in thirty-two chapters. in.
by
It
Six lines in a page.
2jin.
begins
Old. 1
:
I
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II
After some twenty introductory slokas