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PREFACE
requirements of those who have studied Sanskrit and are interested in Tibetan as a repository of early Indian literature. The present volume has been prepared with a view to removing this want: to what extent it will serve the purpose, the author is not competent to say.
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The Chrestomathy is divided into three parts: Part I contains lessons in Tibetan and Sanskrit ; Part II consists of Notes; and Part III gives complete Vocabularies, (i) Tibetan-Sanskrit, and (ii) Sanskrit-Tibetan. The Introduction among other things gives a short description as to how Sanskrit literature along with Buddhism entered into Tibet, as well as a brief notice of Tibetan literature. A Skeleton Grammar of the language has also been added to the Introduction. In an Appendix a short bibliography has been given to help further study.
The texts occurring in the present Chrestomathy, as enumerated below, will show that they represent a variety of Tibetan literature, religious and secular, including passages from sūtras and śāstras.
All of them are in classical Tibetan excepting one, viz. Rūpāditya-katha, which has been included as a specimen of modern Tibetan.
I. Prajñādaṇḍa, Ses.rab.sdon.bu (9), attributed to Nāgārjuna. Tibetan text ed. Sarat Chandra Das, Darjeeling, 1896; and with an English translation by W. L. Campbell, Calcutta, 1919.
II. Nāgānanda nāma Nāṭaka, Klu.kun.tu.dgah.bahi.žes.
