A History of Indian Literature v2.c27.71

v2.c27.71

P. 315 note 1, add: See now also the valuable "Note on the Prajñāpāramitā" by Nalinaksha *Dutt*, Aspects of Mahāyāna Buddhism, London 1930 (Calcutta Oriental Series No. 23), p. 323ff., and the survey of the Prajñāpāramitā literature by Tokumyo *Matsumoto*, Die Prajñāpāramitā-Literatur nebst einem Specimen der Suvikrāntavikrāmi-Prajñāpāramitā (Bonner Orientalistische Studien Heft 1), Stuttgart 1932. N. *Dutt*, l. c., pp. 39f., 328 dates the Aṣṭasāhasrikā "as early as the first century B. C." According to *Matsumoto* (l. c., p. 22) the earliest Chinese translation of the Aṣṭasāhasrikā Pr. dates 172 A. D. He thinks (l. c., p. 31) that the Prajñāpāramitās originated in Kashmir between the birth of Christ and the time of Kaniṣka.