IN THE OLD KHOTANESE VERSION 273 hajeori[40B]dai-na baystihiia viysaina harbisi dharma vyachantia samgacchatt bodhi- silveus = surve dharma adhimoktavyal: Khu dharmasarhfia * vira na palirahie Cu va baudhisatva yatha dharmasamjiiyah upari na pratyupatisthet Yo vai bodhisattvah baystrhfid viiysai avamata anarhlchista lotivadata haudyan ranyan-jsa ~‘hodhi- cattvah aprameyan asamkhyayan lokadhatiin saptabhih — ratnaih harhbiri haurarh hidi+ cu si bisivrrasai cu ttye iVajrmachedakyi suipirya dinam dadati yah sah kulaputra yal tasyah Vajracehedikayah prajiiapararame da _—vira_ustamata teahaurapati sau aha prajitpiramitayah dharmasya upari antafh catuspadikam ¢ [41a‘] nasati o siji harh{dajryarani hal: labhet tha udgrhniyat anyesim, ag si hadi ttye puftinai harhlibisi budarii _ysyarhfle avamata sah eva tasya punyamayam samtham bahutaram prasunuyit aprameyam anarikhisti Ttatta hadi biragiinii tikhu ha uysnauran buhu- asathkhyeyam Eyam eva prakagayitavyam yathi sattvinim — bahu- marin’ ni bajaitti adari ha yanari ivo garkhust na _ttatta minah na lupyate adaram @ kurvanti atha samyak(?) priptam evam Tti va gyasti bays ti a hve yitavyam Atha vai yajatah bhagavan tah gathah avocat Khu) 41 bi] otia Yatha-ca —_tatra ci byaéti sarbii yada prabhati udayet lai uysdisiys im uddefayet tara dyari sivi brroilari bamerayl dpéyante ritran bhasante —_samyak narabhasa haimariu hy Dhawan i sainjiicéti, (82) Yas ea hala panah Snbhiite bodhisattvo mahasattvo ‘prameyan asaikbyeydiill lokadbatin saptaratna-paripimarh krtvi tathagatcbhyo ‘rhadbhyah samyak-sambuddhebhyo damuit dudyad yas va holaputeo va huludhubita wtah prajii-paramil dharma-paryayad antasas catuspadikam api gatham adgrhya dharayed degayed vacayet paryaviipnuyat parebhyas ca vistarena sariypra- Kaéayed ayam eva tato nidinar bahutarai ponyaskandharh prasonnyad aprameyam asarnkhyeyam. Kathath ea sammprakagayet. Tadyathaikase n dipo miyAvagyaya-budbndam | syapnazh ca vidyud abhrazh ca evar dragtayyarh sazhskrtam I tatha prakasayel, leurdeyate sutiprukasayed [Bub vur tewt differs widely owing to the fact that the single verse of the Sanskrit text has, in our teatt, been expanded into a series of verses, each of the topics brought together in the Sanskrit stanza having been taraka timi om r\ VAJRACCHEDIKA bi tti padi indri ~_bvarnfii teem Astarha. aniilici- tam prakaram indriyam bodhaniyam caksuh prabbrti anityam ci pana mi byama rrasta ni ayari hugvana sncet puratah me bodhih yjvi nijth na pratibhasante sujfieyah (?) Crrazama hve cu ‘tcaifia kiss _bigifia —riiva_vajsesde Yadrsam purosah yat cakgusi kacah vigvavidhani ripani pagyati hari ttatva na Idi dyari hadi evam-asya-ca arthasya tattvini na santi dréyante eva [42 af] kasi pracaina 0 kieasya pratyayena tt padi riiva vicitra _ bisifia saidi, jadaxinit tam prakiram rapani ani viévavidhini pratibhasante jadebhyah jivina aysm0 gvana ni Idi sar aysmt kara hallinasii vina fam jfi¢yani(?) na santi samam cittam mithya grihah i! Cra marhfiathda uysnaura carau pracaiivYna vijsyari Yena sadréam ——sattvah © dipa-(?) pratyayena caranti (?) ttt padie? aysmu® ifia vasiyarina «1 [42 b'] dyarama bvarnita tam prakaram cittat antikat drstih — bodhaniya Sarh khu prahagisai nauhya baki buri astii u_ pil Samam yatha bahu aste tatha patati ttaiitta -7 ttararhdara bata dasti muga buri pitti vom kayoh babu patati Sam khu khiysmila ici “bana paskauta asira Samam yatha —budb udakasya vatena (?) asirah, ttatta varigama bvafiii suhadtkha ttaivva. upekgau evam anubhavah bodhantyah cukha-dubkhasya tatha-vai upékst Sam khu hitsarhdi uysnaura hunfi* daitti khu va beyse-* Samam yathi svapan sattvah svapnam paéyati yada vai prabudh- paraphrased, (araka and timira each in four tines, Apa, mayavasyaya and budbuda cach in two lines, evapna and vidyut each apparently in four lines, while 1 am unable to explain the correspondence in the four last lines, which would. correspond to abbra.| 1 Superfluous sign of interpunction. ® Read aysmu. > Read und, * The syllable yse is in a different handwriting, apparently the same as that on fol, 88,IN THE OLD KHOTANESE VERSION 275 43ai] dye se) ahabrastt uiji nd vara bhavii ni drravyi samn hyata. hama ttii bad nijasya uu lulra bhavasya na drevyasya samam smrtih bhavet tam Kalam ttiramiima ti skauji cu mara ye hautté bad& tadréam te samskarah(?) yan ha kascit sapati (?) kalam samu ra tti byfta +? tihima ttn baddu simam ca atha smrtih bhavet tam kalam Ttrahma miihfiahda khu pyaura baraberam'[ha] ti bada, Evam sadrfam —yatha tam alam tti mafiazh —_pracai diysdai ha rvaidé pryaur’i prabhava- atha matinam(?) pratyayah dharayati-enam # prabhave- [48 0Jou na ttatta ustamajsye skaujal Tpakaja bhranté evam uttamasya sarnsk@rasya sazs! a vipt bhrantih bigimhii ‘itt; mamfil diysed’ ha rvaida pyaurai prabhiva-na 0 vigvarapa atha matih(?) dhirayati(?) @ prubbaven ii fii nau padya khu mara na. ryah(?) nava prakiiran yatht tha na jststa jusate tti vasve ‘bych’ + rag] suilsard gi baudhisatya * atha viguddhah bhnyah raja (7) satnsurasya sah bodhisattval saihtsira gvarhni nijiyh ?ni swisixe jfeyam(?) nihanyat ni [44ai] nirvatia yaiidi prayaugéina nirvane ‘kurate — prayogena hadi vara ni simi gvana ttatta alivarautta hamrrasti eva tatra na efat-me jiicyam (?) evam apratisthitam samyal Subhiite Tti-buri hve gyastii bayst stra amye agi E igavil Ih Subbutih a avocat yajatah bhagavin attamanas babhtiva acai Tdam avoead bhagavan attamanah, sthavira-Subhiitis te 1 Superfluous sign of interpunction at end of line, 2 There is a sign like a St. Androw’s cross alter Landhisatvil 8 Pho syllable wi has been repeated at the head of fol. 44. r2VAJRACCHEDIKA irya. agi fiviyea ttysye gyasta--! ea Geiryih bhiksunyah upfsakih upicikah ““deva- manugyai aysura- garhddharvarh astarhna lovya parga Gyasta baysiet [4401] asura- gandharvinim prabbrti lankika pargad Yajatah bhagavan hadi Vajrrachedaka ttré prajfiipararama samasye {iSaddham evam Vajracchedikim trigatikim prajiapiramitim samipayat Siddham Vajrrachidakyi nya ttadi sta tta ttthvafiaris Vajracehedikayih sazhbandbinah granthdh(?) santah evam — ucyante | gifia keira gan Takga ekasmin nagare ekam laksam padarbjsyarh hada atitinam — kala Opisikis te ca bodhisattvih sa-deva-minns-fsura-gandharvas ca loko bhagavato bhisitam abhyanandann iti. Arya-vajracchedika bhagavati prajiiaparamita samapta. TRANSLATION. [Verse 1] In three ways I bow down to the buddhas of the three ages,® with faith . .. I bow down to the law of three vehicles, and also, in three ways, to the order of mendicants. [Verse 2] In the same way T haw down to the siitra, the prajiiparamita of the bnddhas, the mother of all the paramitas, well established, deep, pleasing, exalted. [Verse 8] The first and highest of the life of eulightenment,® the essence of all the dharmas, which . . . in yoga (7). [Verse 4] Where there is no [Verse 5] This praj ient Buddha put together: and when one recites and explains this triéatika# called Vajracchedika, [Verse 6] It altogether clears away all particles (?) of karma and avarana sine asa thunderbolt. Therefore its name is Vajracchedika (thunderbolt cutter). [Verse 7] Whatever the law of the buddhas may be, all that is concentrated in this sutra, in the Vajracchedikit ; therefore it is so pleasing and exalted, as the dharmaktya, + Superfluous sign of intorpunotion. ? Present, past, and fature. 8 ie badhicarya. * Loanword, meaning, ‘consisting of 300 granthas’.