[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) › [Mahāyāna sūtras](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra) › [Śālistambasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.salistamba) › [འཕགས་པ་སཱ་ལུའི་ལྗང་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.salistamba*bo) › [The Rice Seedling](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.salistamba*bo~en-84000) › intro.3 # འཕགས་པ་ས་ལའ་ལྗང་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད intro.3 The Rice Seedling intro.3 - **Language:** English ### [intro.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.salistamba*bo~en-84000.intro.3) We are not aware of any extant complete Sanskrit text of The Rice Seedling. However, it is quoted extensively in surviving Sanskrit treatises like Yaśomitra’s Abhi­dharma­kośa­vyākhyā, Candrakīrti’s Prasannapadā, Prajñākaramati’s Bodhi­caryāvatāra­pañjikā, Śāntideva’s Śikṣasamuccaya, and also a critical non-Buddhist treatise, the Bhāmatī by Vācaspatimiśra. Mainly based on these, several Sanskrit reconstructions have been carried out which are claimed to include about ninety percent of The Rice Seedling. The first reconstructed edition was prepared by Louis de La Vallée Poussin (1913). Without having access to this, N. Ayaswami Sastri (1950) produced another reconstruction. Another one was produced by V.V. Gokhale (1961). Finally, a thorough comparative study and new reconstructed edition was carried out by N. Ross Reat (1993), taking into account Sanskrit, Tibetan, Pāli, and Chinese sources; Reat also provides a complete English translation. This work also illustrates the many parallel and similar passages in Pāli suttas. - [Previous: intro.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.salistamba*bo~en-84000.intro.2) - [Next: intro.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.salistamba*bo~en-84000.intro.4) - [Up: intro](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.salistamba*bo~en-84000.intro) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.salistamba*bo~en-84000.intro.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.salistamba*bo~en-84000.intro.3) · Pramāṇa