A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s6.t4.148

v2.c19.s6.t4.148

We may take it that there was a Ratnakūṭa in Sanskrit too. According to Tāranātha the Ratnakūṭa-Dharma-Paryāya in 1,000 sections, had its origin during the reign of Kaniṣka's son.¹ On the other hand, the various single texts which are mentioned as portions of the Ratnakūṭa in the Chinese and Tibetan works, only occur as independent works in Sanskrit.² The Chinese and the Tibetan books agree in giving the Kāśyapa-Parivarta as section 43 of the Ratnakūṭa. Valuable fragments of the Sanskrit original of this work were found in the neighbourhood of Khotan, and have been published by *Baron A. von Staël-Holstein*.³ It appears, moreover, that this Kāśyapa-Parivarta is identical with the original Ratnakūṭa.⁴ The work was entitled Kāśyapa-Parivarta, because Kāśyapa the Great, Buddha's disciple, is the principal speaker.