Memoirs of the Archæological Survey of India. Central Asian Fragments of the Ashtadasasahasrika Prajnaparamita and of an Unidentified Text

For the history of the text it may also be of interest to note the apparent use of the instrumental for the locative plural in anantiiparyantaih liikadiltubh i 764 (?) a6 if we bear in mind that the two forms were not distinguished in Ardhamagadhi. [...] A The Ashtasahasrika D The Daiasahasrika Ad The AshtadaAasahasrika P The Palichavith Aatisahasrika and S The Satasahasrika. [...] The opening passage is the same as in the other texts fuller than in A but shorter than in Ad P and S. Then comes a short account of the wonders performed by the Buddha numerous rays emerging from the reimakfipas whereafter gäradvatiputra questions the Buddha about the Prajfiaparamitä. [...] the greater portion of D's explanation of parachittajiieina Now the inversion of the terms into the succession safiwritz :inan ath paraciaittainanani is also found in our text and it is possible that there was the same ensuing confusion of the explanations as in the other texts The retention of the word parachittjiana however would be calculated to prevent this confusion and I have theref [...] our.folios enable us to follow the development of the text from say the beginning of the sixth and down to the ninth century.