________________ xii CATUHSATAKA Studi Orientali, Vol. X, pp. 521 ff gave an Italian translation of the last eight chapters of the work from its Chinese translation. After having perused Dr. Vaidya's work I felt that it was marred by many inaccuracies. I wrote a long review pointing them out and modifying or reconstructing the karikas again in my own light. I believe that where the original is not available we can get it back to a considerable extent only by such friendly discussion. I apologize to Dr. Vaidya for my quoting and criticizing his restorations. I have derived much help from his work and accepted his restoration in a few cases. The review referred to above took the shape of a separate volume. Now, when copious extracts from Candrakirtti's com mentary were added, or in many cases, specially towards the end, the commentary was given in full being reconstructed from the Tibetan version, where the original Sanskrit was not found, it was finally decided to issue it in its present form. As regards the arrangement of the matters some change will be noticed after the first few pages. It is due to the fact that the original plan underwent some modification when the printing was far advanced. The present volume is, in fact, the second part of the original work. Logically and traditionally the first part should have contained the first eight chapters and the second the last eight chapters. But as Dr. Vaidya in his volume referred to gave the last nine chapters instead of eight, and as one of my objects for writing this book was to discuss his restorations I simply followed him in including the eighth chapter also. The remaining first seven chapters are given in the first part which will be published as soon as possible. In editing the Tibetan portion of the volume I have used the 'Black' or the Narthang edition of the Xylographs of both the original and its commentary, while Dr. Vaidya has utilized for his text the 'Red' or the Peking edition of the Xylograph only of the text, and not also of the commentary. My Xylo
