Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v1.c8.s2.t5.2

v1.c8.s2.t5.2

It has been recorded in the 10^th chapter titled *Displaying of Books* of the fourth volume of *Lalitavistara Sutra* that as per the knowledge of Bodhisattvas there were then 64 scripts of different forms. The concerned book has been translated by an Indian monk, Divakara, in the middle of the Tang Dynasty. The Brāhmī (fan-mei) *lipi* in Sanskrit was reckoned as the first form of the script. Its transliteration in Chinese was 'fan-mei' (梵寐). Another Indian monk, Dharmaraksa, translated another version of *Lalitavistara Sutra* during the western Jin dynasty. The seventh chapter titled *Appearing Books* was to be found in the third volume of the same *Lalitavistara Sutra*, that recorded the names of 64 scripts and the first kind of the 'Brahmana script' corresponded with 'Brāhmī script'. There are two important