A History of Sanskrit Literature c33.s7.27

c33.s7.27

The quintessence of the new doctrine is also given in the numerous *Prajñāpāramitās*, of which we have versions of from 700 to 100,000 Çlokas,² i. e. units of thirty-two syllables in length in prose. These merely assert that intelligence, the highest of the perfections, Pāramitās, of the Buddha consists in the recognition of the vacuity, Çūnyatā, of everything. The most famous is the *Vajracchedikā*,³ diamond-cutter, which spread over Central Asia,⁴ China, and Japan, in which it serves with the *Prajñāpāramitāhṛdaya* as the chief texts of the Shin-gon sect.