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² cf., L. Wieger, Histoire des croyances religieuses et des opinions philosophiques en Chine, 3rd edn., Hien-hien, 1927, p. 395. The Arab writer Al-Beroni, of the XIth century, places a hundred years before his own time, an alchemist Nāgārjuna (E. Sachau, Alberuni's India, London, 1910, Vol. I, p. 189). It is to him that a part of the alchemical texts, attributed to the Buddhist savant of the IInd century, should be attributed, but the tradition describing the latter as an alchemist is of a very ancient date, as it was already in usage at the time of Hiuen-tsang.