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same as the Prajná of our text. It is however, in the vocabulary, entitled the Trikända Sesha, that the fullest confirmation occurs, that many of the inferior personages belonging to the Bauddhas were known in India, when that faith was current there. Besides the names of SÁKYA and those of general or individual Buddhas, as SWAYAMBIÚ, PADMAPÁNI, LOKANÁTH, LOKEŚA, VITARÁGA, AVALOKITA, and MANJUŚRI, that work specifies a variety of goddesses, whose titles are found in the text as Tárá, Vasundhará, Dhanadá or Sampatpradá, Márichí, Lochaná, and others. The vocabulary is Sanskrit, and is apparently a compilation of the tenth or eleventh century'.
The allusions in the twenty-fourth and other verses to MANJU Náth seem to point to him as the first teacher of the Bauddha religion in Nepal. Tradition assigns to him the same part that was performed by KĀŚYAPA in Kashmir , the recovery of the country from the waters by which it was submerged, by giving them an outlet through the mountains: this he performed, according to the text, by cutting a passage with his scymitar. He is described in the same stanza, as coming from Sirshá, which the Newari comment says is the mountain of Maháchín, and the Sambhu Purána also states the same. The city founded by MANJU, called Manju Pattan *, is no longer in exis
Introduction of Wilson's Dictionary p. XXVII.
As. Res. Vol. XV. [Burnouf, “Lotus”, 505.] * [Lassen, Ind. Alt., III, 777 f. Burnouf, “Lotus'', 504.]
