འཕགས་པ་སྲད་པ་འཕ་བ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད intro.7

intro.7

Other fragments from the Sanskrit text have been found extant in quotation in other works, with a great number of variations.⁸ The Pitā­putra­samāgama­sūtra (The Sūtra of the Meeting of Father and Son) contains a passage that closely parallels the prose passage of the Bhava­saṅkrānti­sūtra in both the Tibetan and Sanskrit. The extant Sanskrit is found in quotation in Śāntideva’s Śikṣāsamuccaya.⁹ In addition to being quoted extensively among treatises, the verse section of the Bhava­saṅkrānti­sūtra has some passages in common with or closely resembling verses found in other sūtras and treatises. There are three similarly titled treatises found in the Tengyur, all attributed to Nāgārjuna, called the Bhavasañcara (Toh 2277), the Bhavasaṅkrānti (Toh 3840), and the Bhava­saṅkrānti­parikathā (Toh 4162), and for the second of these there is a word-by-word commentary called the Bhava­saṅkrānti­tīka (Toh 3841), attributed to a “Paṇḍita Maitreyanātha.”¹⁰ All three of these treatises contain within them verses that loosely match the verse section of the Bhava­saṅkrānti­sūtra. Ostensibly these treatises are themselves a commentary on the sūtra; however, the relationships are ambiguous, and some scholars have suggested the possibility that it was the treatises, in some form, that had a later influence on the verse section of the sūtra.¹¹ Since the whole set of the canonical quotations and parallel passages to the verse section is complex and extensive, a comprehensive list of these instances is found in the .