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¹ The Daśasāhasrikā Pr. ("Pr. of 10,000") was translated into Chinese for the first time in 179 A.D., and then repeatedly till the 10th century; s. *Nanjio*, Nos. 5-8, 927; *Bagchi* I, pp, 40, 156, 186 f., 289. There are three translations of the Pañcaviṃśati-Sāhasrikā Pr. ("Pr. of 25,000"), (286, 291 and 404 A.D.), s. *Nanjio*, Nos. 2-4; *Bagchi* I, 86, 185 f. A Saptaśatikā Pr. ("Pr. of 700") was translated between 502 and 557 A.D., s. *Nanjio*, Nos. 21, 22; a Pañcaśatikā Pr. ("Pr. of 500") between 428 and 479; s. *Nanjio*, No. 16; *Bagchi*, I, 404; an Ardhaśatikā Pr. ("Pr. of 150") several times between the 7th and 10th centuries, s. *Nanjio*, Nos. 18, 879, 1033 f. The Vajracchedikā Pr. was translated first by Kumārajīva (405 A.D.) and then often, s. *Nanjio*, Nos. 10-15; *Bagchi* I, 192, 253, 255, 425. For other Prajñā-Pāramitās, s. *Nanjio*, No. 17; *Bagchi* I, 44 ff. Apart from the numerous Chinese translations of Indian texts, there is a still greater number of original Chinese works dealing with the Prajñā-Pāramitās; s. O *Franke* in OZ 4, 1915-16, 207 ff. [^2): *Cf. Csoma de Körös* in Asiatick Researches, Vol. 20 (1836), p. 393 ff. and AMG II, 119 ff. For a bibliography of Chinese and Tibetan translations of Prajñā-Pārmitās, s. *Walleser*, Prajñāpāramitā, p. 15 ff. [^3): Edited by *Pratāpacandra Ghoṣa* in Bibl. Ind. 1902-1914 (19 fasc.; more did not appear until 1926). *Cf. Rāj. Mitra*, Nep. Buddh. Lit. 177 ff.; *Bendall*, Catalogue, pp. 143-148. On Central Asiatic fragments of the Śatasāhasrkā Pr. in Chinese and Khotanese, s. *Hoernle, E. Chavannes* and *S. Lévi* in Hoernle, Ms. Remains I, 387 ff. Fragments of a Prajñā-P., which corresponds to the Śatasāhasrikā, but appears to be a shorter version, have been published by Pandit B. B. Bidyabinod, Fragment of a Prajñāpāramitā Ms. from Central Asia (Memoirs of the Archæological Survey of India, No. 32), 1927. [^4): *Rāj. Mitra*, l.c. 193 f.; *Bendall*, l.c. 144 f.; *Haraprasāda Śāstrī*, Descriptive Catalogue of Sanskrit MSS. in the ... Asiatic Society of Bengal, I, p. 10 f. [^5): Edited by *Rājendralāla Mitra* in Bibl. Ind. 1888; Chapt. XVIII translated by *Haraprasāda Śāstrī* in J.B.T.S. II, 1894; Extracts translated into German by *Max Walleser* Prajñāpāramitā, die Vollkommenheit der Erkenntnis, nach indischen, tibetischen, und chinesischen Quellen, Quellen der Religionsgeschichte, Göttingen 1914. In the Śikṣā-Samuccaya there are quotations from the Aṣṭasāhasrī Pr., as well as from a Mahatī Pr., an Ārya-Pr. and a Bhagavatī Pr.; s. Bendall, Śikṣāsamuccaya Ed., p. 369 and JRAS 1898 870 ff.