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Sūtrālaṅkāra – 177 mentioned in a history of Buddhism written in 1345. But we have a list of patriarchs of a much more ancient date in a Sanskrit work translated into Chinese in 472. Here the person placed between Parśva and Aśvaghoṣa is Fou-na-che. In this Fou-na is quite positive. The transcription proposed by Julien is inadmissible. Puṇyāyaśas will not do. The correct restoration is Pūrṇa which is a customary abbreviation of a type known in grammar as bhimavat, of either Pūrṇaṣa or Puṇyāyaśas. Now both the Chinese works just mentioned attribute the conversion of Aśvaghoṣa to Puma, while the biography of Aśvaghoṣa ascribes it to Parśva. Once more we find Pūrṇa and Parśva in close association just as in the invocation in the Sūtralaṅkāra. They are so closely allied in fact, that one of them is substituted for the other. Parśva or Parśvika is better known. There is no equivocation regarding his personality. Both the Chinese Hiuen-tsiang and the Tibetan Tāranātha attest the preponderating influence which he exercised on Kaniṣka and the part which he took in the convocation of the Council as well as in the compilation of the works. He was a native of Gandhāra. The convent built for him by Kaniṣka where he resided in Kashmir was shown to the pilgrim. It had a commemoration tablet. He frequently bears the title of bhikṣu which is also attached to his name in the Sūtralaṅkāra. Further he is also styled the Elder as in the biography of Aśvaghoṣa. As regards Mi-tche, Sylvain Lévi again differs from Huber. According to the former it is derived from the Sanskrit Mecha. He is designated as the sixth patriarch. Lassen on the authority of Julien establishes the hypothetical Sanskrit name Micchaka, but this word is not known in Sanskrit. Wassilieff has corrected the transcription
Sūtrālaṅkāra – 178 in Mechaka. Mechaka [206] is the predecessor of Vasumitra, the president of the Council of Kaniṣka, and Vasumitra is separated from Parśva by two patriarchs, namely, Buddha Nandi and Buddha Mitra. In the lists of the Sarvāstivādi filiation Mechaka occupies quite a different rank. In both the lists Mechaka floats in the neighbourhood of Aśvaghoṣa. Thus the name is proved to be Mechaka and the invocation may be established to be addressed to Pūrṇa, Parśva, and Mechaka, the masters of the Śāstras. These three predecessors of Aśvaghoṣa are all of them glorious adepts of the Sarvāstivādi school. Reverence to them shown by Aśvaghoṣa further evinces, that the author of the Sūtralaṅkāra was an adherent of the same school.
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1 Literary History of Sanskrit Budd
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3 Translation into Chinese and Tibe
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5 Chapter 7: Mahāyānasūtras Wors
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9 Preface What follows is the first
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11 Chapter 1: Two Schools of Buddhi
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Two Schools of Buddhism - 13 remain
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Sanskrit Buddhist Canon - 17 transl
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19 Chapter 3: Mahāvastu As belongi
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Mahāvastu - 21 3), lastly recounts
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Mahāvastu - 23 Its Jātakas Quite
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