ལས་ཀྱ་རྣམ་པར་འགྱར་བ་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་ཆས་ཀྱ་གཞང intro.27

intro.27

As we have already mentioned, no complete Sanskrit version of Transformation of Karma is extant. In his study of the Khotanese fragments of the Karma­vibhaṅga, Mauro Maggi remarks that Transformation of Karma “corresponds” to “S2” (that is, a manuscript fragment of the Śukasūtra from Eastern Turkestan, in the British Library, Oriental and India Office Collections, London, which was edited by A. F. R. Hoernle in 1916 and reproduced in Lévi 1932, 235–36).²⁵ However, Sylvain Lévi had already observed that although the two texts—the Central Asian Sanskrit fragment and the Tibetan text of Transformation of Karma Toh 339 (i.e., Lévi’s “T2”)—exhibit a family likeness, they are different.²⁶ A careful comparison of Lévi’s edition of the extant Sanskrit portions of the Śukasūtra fragment from Central Asia (paragraphs VIII–XII) with the corresponding paragraphs in the Tibetan text of Transformation of Karma confirms Lévi’s observation.