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Kashgar manuscript, but it would have been easier for the reader if these indications had also been given in the text itself as, for instance, has been done by Toda in his edition of the Central Asian manuscripts of the SP.
There are two indexes: an index of names and a terminological index. Both indexes are divided into two parts, the first relating to the Mahāparinirvāṇasūtra and the Dharmaśarīrasūtra, the second to the Saddharmapundarīkasūtra.
We must be grateful to G. M. Bongard-Levin and M. I. Vorob'eva-Desjatovskaja for having made accessible these important Central Asian manuscripts. It is to be hoped that we may soon see the publication of the second volume.
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1 Sanskrit Fragments of the Mahāyāna Mahāparinirvānasūtra. 1. Koyasan Manuscript. Tokyo, The Reiyukai Library, 1981. 2 See Yuyama, op. cit., pp. 8-14; Paul Demiéville, 'Le bouddhisme. Les sources chinoises', L'Inde classique II (Paris, 1953), p. 451. 3 FUSE Kõgaku, Nehan-shu no kenkyū. Tokyo, 1942. Second edition, Tokyo, 1973. 4 See fragment 5 R 9 and Yuyama, op. cit., p. 18, line 1. 5 Saddharmapundarīkasutra. Central Asian Manuscripts Romanized Text (Tokushima, 1981) p. xiii. 6 JIABS 4, 2 (1981), pp. 7-16. 7 'Zentralasiatische Sanskrittexte in Brāhmischrift aus Idikutsahri, Chinesisch-Turkistan I', SBAW 1904, pp. 1282-1290. 8 'Some Khotanese Donors', Mémorial Jean de Menasce (Louvain, 1974), p. 383. 9 Op. cit., p. xii. 10 Beiträge zum Saddharmapundari kasutra (Leiden, 1938), pp. 7-8. 11 Über die 'Marburger Fragmente des Saddharmapundarika (Göttingen, 1972), pp. 15-16. 12 A Bibliography of the Sanskrit Texts of the Saddharmapundarīkasūtra (Canberra, 1970), pp. 30-33. 13 Op. cit., p. lvi. 14 Notes on the Kashgar Manuscript of the Saddharmapundarīkasūtra (Tokyo, 1977), p. 37.
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Otto Stein, Kleine Schriften, Herausgegeben von Friedrich Wilhelm (GlasenappStiftung, Band 25), Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmgH, 1985, XXV, 663 pp. DM 94,
Otto Stein's first publication was devoted to a comparative study of Megasthenes' account of India and Kautilya's Arthaśāstra: Megasthenes und Kautilya (Wien, 1921). His last publications appeared in 1938. On 21 October 1941, Otto Stein and his wife Gertruda were transported to Lodz where they were probably killed
Indo-Iranian Journal 30 (1987).