A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s6.t4.126

v2.c19.s6.t4.126

¹ According to the Ādikarma-Pradīpa (s. *La Vallée Poussin*, Bouddhisme, E'tudes et Matériaux, Mémoires Ac. Belgique, 1897, p. 227), the reading and Sun-wise circumambulation of the Prajñāpāramitās and similar books are part of the Buddhist cult. Fa-hien, who visited India in the year 399 A.D., already mentions that the Prajñāpāramitās were an object of divine worship at his time; s. S. Beal, Si-yu-ki. Buddhist Records of the Western World I, p. xxxix. In the Nepalese chronicle Vaṃśāvalī it is related, that during the reign of King Śaṅkaradeva (12th century) on the occasion of a fire in a village, a widow fled to Patna, taking nothing with her except a small model of a Caitya, a manuscript of the Prajñāpāramitā, which is said to have been written in the year 188 A.D. in golden letters, and her little son; s. Bendall in OC Berlin, 1881, II, 190.