MINOR BUDDHIST TEXTS (Part 1)

G. TUCCI
±Mt&% ^(Ta. 1510), Vajracchedika-prajnaparamita
- sastra by Asanga, translated by
Dharmagupta, in prose: then the karikas by Asahga
were commented upon by Vasubandhu in a sastra
which was translated twice into Chinese, viz. Chin kang
pan jo po lo mi ching lun ^^Ijilj^^^l^
S< M tm ( N J-
1167 > Ta -
1511 ) translated by Bodhiruci
and Chin kang pan jo po lo mi ching lun
shih (. •• |f) translated by I Ching (Nj. 1231, Ta.
1513).
In Tibet we find a commentary on the Vajracched
i k a which is attributed, in the colophon, to Vasubandhu,
Tohoku Cat., n. 3816: aP'ags pa bcom ldan
adas ma ses rab kyi p'a rol tu p'yin
pa rdo rje gcod pai don bdun gyi
rgya e'er agrel pa, Aryabhagavatiprajnaparamitavajracchedikayah
s a -
pta[pa]darthatika, which, as far as I know, is
missing in N.
Are all these attributions to be accepted? In favour
of the attribution of our metrical treatise to Asanga speaks
the colophon of the manuscript as well as the translation
of the karikas by I Ching and the translation by the
same author of the commentary on it written by Vasubandhu
(Ta. 1513) 1} . The title of this work is in fact
followed by the statement that the karikas were
written by Asanga and the commentary by Vasubandhu.
But the translation of the same sastra by Bodhiruci
(Ta. 1511) does not contain any mention of Asanga and
the treatise is said to be the work of Vasubandhu, without
1) Cf. H. Ui, ZII, vol. VI, 1928, p. 216.
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