Journal of the Pali Text Society

135 Pages·1888·4.6 MB·English and Pāli

by  T W Rhys Davids

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j10urnal
OF THE
PALl SOCIETY.
1882.
EDITED BY
T. W. RHYS DAYIDS, :M.A., PH.D.,
OF THE MIDDLE TE)IPLE, BARRISTER-AT-LAW,
}'HOFESSOR OF P.-\LI AND ]~L'DJ)HIST LITERAT1:RE IX r::r-HYEllSlTY COLLEGE,
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PUBLISHED FOR THE PALl TEXT SOCIETY,
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1882.
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TABLB OF CONTENTS.
l'JWSPECT,'" OF TIlE SOClF:TY Y11
ltFPORT OF TIlE SOCIETY FOR 1882, BY T. IV. Run DAViDS.
1,1'-1'5 OF ~[DrHJ:I{S 15
LI."'f OF ~SS. IX THE 130DLEIAX LrrlHARY, OXHJlW, BY
O. FIUXK1TllTEJ( 30
LIST OF ~ISS. I'" TILE 1lIBLIOIlU::Ql:l': NUIOX\U: AT l'ARIS,
BY L£ox PEER 32
LIST OF ~ISS. IX TITE OltIEXTAL LUlR.UlY, lC\XDY, BY H. C.
P.13ELL 38
LIST OF "llSS. IX TilE COW)IBO "lll::-;Eur, BY Loris DE ZOYSA 46
LIST OF ~ISS. IN TUE 1:\DIA OFHCE LnlRAHY, ]J¥ H.
OLIlE1\BEltG 59
l'.HG 1. THE S.\C'llED LlTEIUTLIlE WITH TIlE CO)I-
ME""LUUES • 59
n. GRDDL\TICAL IVOllRS 8G
" lIT. HISTORICAL AXD 'MISCELLlXI:OI:S IVOB];S 108

PALl TEXT SOCIETY.
CmI:.\IITTEE OF ~IANAGE~IENT.
PROFESSOltFAUSBOLL. DR.MORRIS.
DR.OLDEXBERG. M. El\fILE SE~ART.
T. W. RIIYS DAVIDS, Chairman.
(Withpowertoaddworkerstotheirnumber.)
Hon. Treasurcr--W. W. IIU~TER, Esq., C.LE., LL.D.
Hon. Secretary-U. B. BRODRIBB,Esq., B.A., 3,Brick Court, Temple, E.C.
This Society has been started in order to render accessible
to students the rich stores of the earliest Buddhist literature
now lying unedited and practically unused in the various
MSS. scattered throughout the University and other Public
Libraries ofEurope.
The historical importance of these Texts can scarcely be
exaggerated, either in respect of their value for the history
of folk-lore, or of religion, or of language. It is already
certain that they were all put into their present form within
a very limited period, probably extending to less than a
century and a half (about n.o, 400-250). For that period
they have preserved for us a record, quite uncontaminated
by filtration through any European mind, of the every-day
beliefs and customs of a people nearly related to ourselves,
just as they were passing through the first stages of civiliza
tion. They are our best authorities for the early history of
that interesting system of religion so nearly allied to some
of the latest speculations among ourselves, and which has