The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland; New Series [8, 1 ed.]

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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.

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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

*TT

II

After some twenty introductory slokas