MINOR BUDDHIST TEXTS (Part 1)

G. TUCCI
mably can only be this work with which we are concerned
(also in two c h ii a n Ta. 1510 a).
Against this statement there is a passage contained
in the small treatise attributed to I Ching on the last stanza
of the Vajracchedika (Ta. 1817, p. 783a): here
it is said that Vasubandhu after having explained the
karikas of Maitreya-Asanga again made another explanation
of the prajfid in which its seven topics were
expounded. There is no doubt that the work here alluded
to is the treatise Ta. 1510 (Nj. 1167) attributed by the
current tradition to Asanga and called in Tibetan Don
bdun gyi rgya e'er agrel pa, Saptapadarthatlka;
this corresponds to what we read in the
Chinese translation of the same work: -j^ ^ ^ /pj, Saptapadartha.
In the colophon of the Tibetan translation
the work is said to be by Vasubandhu, slob dpon
dByig giien, mDo, Ma, 203 6. Then the colophon
continues: " There remaining a little portion unfinished
of this new translation made by the all-knowing gZon
nu dpal, the fourth hierarch (cod pan ads'in pa)
of the Zva dmar sect, dPal c'os kyi grags pa ye ses dpal
bzan po in order to fulfil the wish of that excellent master
(r j e), ordered that (that portion) should be translated.
Therefore the 1 o t s a v a of Za hi, C'os skyon of aGos,
in the palace of sNeu gdon rtse, - a great meeting place of
the two Laws, the religious and the civil, - translated it
properly with the support of the powerful king, master
of the Law, (C'os kyi r j e), a king ruling according
to the Law, (C'os kyi rgyal po) dPal nag gi
dban p'yug grags pa, the all - victorious one. The clear
commentary, (explaining) the meaning of the Mother of
the Buddhas of the three times which possesses the name
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