འཕགས་པ་གནས་འཇག་པའ་མད་ཞས་བྱ་བ intro.6

intro.6

Although no Indic source text exists for the Tibetan translation of The Sūtra of Vasiṣṭha, the text does share a number of similarities with several Pali suttas, yet the exact relationship between these texts is unclear.³ However, in terms of its circulation and influence beyond the Indian subcontinent, one remarkable fact related to The Sūtra of Vasiṣṭha is that, along with two other sūtras,⁴ it appears to have served as a source on the history of India in the famous fourteenth-century Persian historical account of Asia known as Compendium of Chronicles (Jāmiʿ al-tawārīkh).⁵