There were other works in which Bodhisattvas and others went deeply into the explanation of the meaning, and illustrated the principles of Buddha. These were called Disquisitions, or _S_âstras. Then there were Vinaya, or compilations of precepts, under each division as before, Mahâyâna, Hînayâna, Mixed. There were also Records, or accounts of the doings in their times of those who had been students of the system. Altogether there were eleven classes under which the books were arranged:— 1. Sûtra. Mahâyâna 617 in 2,076 chapters. Mixed 487 in 852 chapters. Mixed and doubtful 172 in 336 chapters. 2. Vinaya. Mahâyâna 52 in 91 chapters. Hînayâna 80 in 472 chapters. Mixed 27 in 46 chapters. 3. _S_âstra. Mahâyâna 35 in 141 chapters. Hînayâna 41 in 567 chapters. Mixed 51 in 437 chapters. Total 1962 in 6,198 chapters. _Search for Sanskrit MSS. in China._ It was the publication of Hiouen-thsang’s Travels which roused the hopes of Professor Wilson that some of the old Sanskrit MSS. which had been carried away from India might still be discovered in China.(108) But though no pains were spared by Sir John Bowring to carry out Professor Wilson’s wishes, though he had catalogues sent to him from Buddhist libraries, and from cities where Buddhist compositions might be expected to exist, the results were disappointing, at least so far as Sanskrit texts were concerned. A number of interesting Chinese books, translated from Sanskrit by Hiouen-thsang and others, works also by native Chinese Buddhists, were sent to the library of the East India House; but what Professor Wilson and all Sanskrit scholars with him most desired, Sanskrit MSS., or copies of Sanskrit MSS., were not forthcoming. Professor Wilson showed me, indeed, one copy of a Sanskrit MS. that was sent to him from China, and, so far as I remember, it was the Kâla-_K_akra,(109) which we know as one of the books translated from Sanskrit into Chinese. That MS., however, is no longer to be found in the India Office Library, though it certainly existed in the old East India House.