[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Literature, language and dating](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature) › [A History of Indian Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927) › v2.c19.s6.t4.84 # A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s6.t4.84 A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s6.t4.84 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c19.s6.t4.84](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s6.t4.84) 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. - [Previous: v2.c19.s6.t4.83](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s6.t4.83) - [Next: v2.c19.s6.t4.85](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s6.t4.85) - [Up: v2.c19.s6.t4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s6.t4) ## Cites (6) - [Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.prajnaparamita.vistirna.astasahasrika) — Sanskrit - [Daśasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.prajnaparamita.vistirna.dasasahasrika) — Sanskrit - [Pañcaśatikā prajñāpāramitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.prajnaparamita.samksipta.pancasatikaprajnaparamita) — Sanskrit - [Saptaśatikā Prajñāpāramitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.prajnaparamita.samksipta.saptasatika) — Sanskrit - [Pañcaviṃśatisāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.prajnaparamita.vistirna.pancavimsatisahasrika) — Sanskrit - [Vajracchedikā Prajñāpāramitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.prajnaparamita.samksipta.vajracchedika) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s6.t4.84](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s6.t4.84) · Pramāṇa