[Footnote 130: See Walleser, _Prajñâ-pâramitâ_ in _Quellen der Religionsgeschichte_, pp. 15 ff. _S.B.E._ XLIX. Nanjio, Catalogue Nos. 1-20 and Rajendralala Mitra's _Nepalese Buddhist Literature_, pp. 177 ff. Versions are mentioned consisting of 125,000 verses, 100,000 verses, 25,000 verses, 10,000 verses and 8,000 verses respectively. (Similarly at the beginning of the Mahâbhârata we are told that the Epic consists of 8,800 verses, of 24,000 and of 100,000.) Of these the last or Ashṭasâhasrikâ has been published in the _Bibliotheca Indica_ and the second or Śatasâhasrikâ is in process of publication. It is in prose, so that the expression "verses" appears not to mean that the works are Gâthâs. A Khotanese version of the Vajracchedikâ is edited in Hoernle's _Manuscript Remains_ by Sten Konow. The Sanskrit text was edited by Max Müller in _Anecdota Oxoniensia._] [Footnote 131: The Sanskrit text has been edited by Kern and Nanjio in _Bibliotheca Buddhica_; translated by Burnouf (_Le Lotus de la bonne Loi_), 1852 and by Kern (Saddharma-Puṇḍarîka) in _S.B.E._ vol. XXI.] [Footnote 132: There appears to have been an earlier Chinese version of 255 A.D. but it has been lost. See Nanjio, p. 390. One of the later Chinese versions alludes to the existence of two recensions (Nanjio, No. 139). See _B.E.F.E.O._ 1911, p. 453. Fragments of a shorter and apparently earlier recension of the Lotus have been discovered in E. Turkestan. See _J.R.A.S._ 1916, pp. 269-277.] [Footnote 133: Edited by Rajendralala Mitra in the _Bibliotheca Indica_ and partially translated in the same series. A later critical edition by Lefmann, 1902-8.] [Footnote 134: The early Chinese translations seem doubtful. One said to have been made under the later Han has been lost. See Nanjio, No. 159.] [Footnote 135: See Burnouf, _Introduction_, pp. 458 ff. and _J.R.A.S._ 1905, pp. 831 ff. Rajendralala Mitra, _Nepalese Buddhist Literature_, p. 113. A brief analysis is given in _J.A.S.B._ June, 1905 according to which the sûtra professes to be the work of a human author, Jina of the clan of Kâtyâyana born at Campâ. An edition of the Sanskrit text published by the Buddhist Text Society is cited but I have not seen it. Chinese translations were made in 443 and 515 but the first is incomplete and does not correspond with our Sanskrit text.] [Footnote 136: Abstract by Rajendralala Mitra, _Nepalese Buddhist Lit_. p. 241.] [Footnote 137: See Nanjio, No. 127 and F.W.K. Muller in _Abhandl. der K. Preuss. Akad. der Wissenschaften_, 1908. The Uigur text is published in _Bibliotheca Buddhica_, 1914. Fragments of the Sanskrit text have also been found in Turkestan.] [Footnote 138: Abstract by Raj. Mitra, _Nepalese Buddhist Lit._ pp. 90 ff. The Śikshâsamuccaya cites the Gaṇḍa-vyûha several times and does not mention the Avataṃsaka.]