[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Buddhist Sanskrit literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit) › [Āgama sūtras of the mainstream schools](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama) › [Sūtras of the Middle-length Discourses transmitted singly](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.madhyama) › [Stahānadharasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.madhyama.stahanadharasutra) › [འཕགས་པ་གནས་འཇོག་པའི་མདོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.madhyama.stahanadharasutra*bo) › [The Sutra of Vasishtha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.madhyama.stahanadharasutra*bo~en-84000) › intro.6 # འཕགས་པ་གནས་འཇག་པའ་མད་ཞས་བྱ་བ intro.6 The Sūtra of Vasiṣṭha intro.6 - **Language:** English ### [intro.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.madhyama.stahanadharasutra*bo~en-84000.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 - [Previous: intro.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.madhyama.stahanadharasutra*bo~en-84000.intro.5) - [Next: intro.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.madhyama.stahanadharasutra*bo~en-84000.intro.7) - [Up: intro](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.madhyama.stahanadharasutra*bo~en-84000.intro) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.madhyama.stahanadharasutra*bo~en-84000.intro.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.madhyama.stahanadharasutra*bo~en-84000.intro.6) · Pramāṇa