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¹ Tāranātha, Geschichte des Buddhismus, übers. von *Schiefner*, p. 162 ff. The biography of Śāntideva, which Haraprasāda Śāstrī (Ind. Ant. 42, 1913, pp. 49-52) found in a Nepalese manuscript of the 14th century, agrees in the main with Tāranātha. In this MS. Rājā Mañjuvarma is mentioned as his father. It is said here that he had the additional name "Bhusuka," because he was well versed in the meditation called "Bhusuka." He is also said to have been the author of a Tantra, and Haraprasāda found works of the Vajrayāna school and songs in the Old Bengali language, which are attributed to a certain Bhusuka. This biography, too, speaks of *three* works of Śāntideva. The assumption of P. L. Vaidya (*Etudes sur Āryadeva*, p. 54) that by Śikṣā-Samuccaya, the text of the Kārikās is meant, and by Sūtra-Samuccaya the commentary containing the quotations from Sūtras, is indeed very tempting: nevertheless, I regard it as far more likely that the statement about the *three* works of Śāntideva is merely based upon an erroneous interpretation of the verses Bodhicaryāvatāra V. 105 f., where Śāntideva recommends the study of his **Śikṣā-Samuccaya** or the Sūtra-Samuccaya of Nāgārjuna; s. Winternitz in WZKM 26, 1912, 246 ff. Cf. also P. L. Vaidya, l. c., p. 54 ff. and *Keith, HSL*, pp. 72 f., 236.