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² ) The literal meaning of Sarvāstivāda is "the all-is doctrine," the doctrine that everything exists permanently. *I-tsing* (A Record of the Buddhist Religion, transl. by J. *Takakusu*, Oxford, 1896, pp. XXIV, 8 ff., 20) calls it Āryamūlasarvāstivāda, and he mentions the schools of the Mūla-Sarvastivādas, the Dharmaguptas, the Mahīśāsakas and the Kāśyapīyas, as its sub-divisions. The relationship between the Sarvāstivāda and the Mūla-Sarvāstivāda is, however, by no means clear. *Cf.* *Takakusu*, ERE XI, p. 198 ff.; *Lévi* in T'oung Pao, sér. 2, t. VIII, 1907, p. 114 f., N. *Dutt*, Early History of the Spread of Buddhism and the Buddhist Schools, p. 271 n. and table to p. 224. In the Buddhist dictionary Mahāvyutpatti, para. 275, a list of the schools begins with: Āryasarvāstivādāḥ,