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² Thus fragments of Buddhist texts have been found in two languages hitherto unknown, which are now termed “Kuchean” and “Khotanese” after Kuchar and Khotan, the places in Eastern Turkestan where they were discovered, as the names “Tokharian,” “North Aryan,” “East Indian” and “Śakian,” suggested by various scholars have not been generally accepted (Cf. Sten *Konow* in Festschrift Windisch, p. 96 f.; *Hoernle*, Manuscript Remains, I, p. IX ff.). Fragments in “Kuchean” have been published by S. *Lévi* in JA 1911, s. 10, t. XVII, 138 ff., 431 ff.; t. XIX, 1912, 101ff; JRAS 1913, 109 ff.; and in Hoernle, Manuscript Remains, I, pp. 357ff., 365 ff.; Fragments in “Khotanese” by *Konow* and *Hoernle* in Hoernle, Manuscript Remains, I, pp. 214 ff., 289 ff., 395 ff.; also by E. *Leumann*, Zur nordarischen Sprache und Literatur, Strassburg, 1912; Maitreyasamiti, Strassburg, 1919, and Buddhistische Literatur, Nordarisch und Deutsch, I, Leipzig, 1920 (AKM XV, 2). A Soghdian version of the Vessantara-Jātaka has been edited and translated by R. *Gauthiot* in JA 1912, s. 10, t. XIX, pp. 163 ff., 430 ff; see also Le Sūtra des causes et des effets du bien et du mal, éd. et trad. d’après les textes sogdiens, chinois et tibétains par R. *Gauthiot* et P. *Pelliot*, Paris (Mission Pelliot) I, 1920; II, 1926. Buddhist texts in the Uigurian language have been published by H. *Stönner* in SBA 1904, p. 1282 ff. and F. W. K. *Müller*, Uigurica I and II, in ABA 1908 and 1910. E. *Sieg* and W. *Siegling*, to which scholars is due the credit of having proved “Tokharian” (“Kuchean”) to be an Indo-European language, (SBA 1908, p. 915 ff.) have published fragments of Buddhist Sanskrit texts from the finds at Turfan: Tocharische Sprachreste, I, Die Texte, Berlin and Leipzig, 1921.