A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s6.t4.241

v2.c19.s6.t4.241

There are no ground for denying Nāgārjuna the authorship of the commentaries Prajñā-Pāramitā-Sūtra-Śāstra and Daśa-Bhūmi-Vibhāṣā-Śāstra.² The short treatise Eka-Śloka Śāstra,³ which has come down only in Chinese, and which sets out to prove that true existence (svabhāva) is non-existence (abhāva), is perhaps rightly ascribed to Nāgārjuna. On the other hand, it is not very likely that the Prajñā-daṇḍa,⁴ which has come down in Tibetan, a book of 260 sayings, only very few of which are Buddhist at all, and the majority of which merely teach general morality and wisdom, with many an allusion to the fables in the Pañcatantra, was the work of Nāgārjuna.