Note by Dr. Rajendrolála Mitra, dated 14th February 1883.
“The volume is a foolscap folio of 686 pages, with 20 pages of index and some blank pages, in a good state of preservation. Some sheets of the paper bear the water-mark of “Snelgrove, 1828,” others of 1830. The writing, therefore, was not undertaken until 1831, when Csoma de Körös was in Calcutta, and he must have taken some time to complete it. The whole is in the handwriting of Csoma. From the general appearance of neatness and absence of erasures, corrections, and interlineations, it is evident that the volume is a fair copy. The matter is arranged in four columns, the first containing the serial number, next the Sanskrit word in English letters, then the Tibetan equivalent in Tibetan character, and lastly the English meaning. The words are grouped in classes, as shown in the index. The arrangements being according to classes and not alphabetical, it is difficult to use the volume for reference.” [[208]]
This is the index of the work, showing the several heads or titles under which Sanskrit and Tibetan words, proper names, phrases, technical terms, &c. &c., were collected or compiled by ancient learned Indian pandits and Tibetan Lotsavas (interpreters) or translators.
Note.—The number of titles shows the regular series in the original (though it has not been marked there); and the number of page indicates where the chapter under that head or title commences in this compilation.
Heads or Titles of Chapters.
| No. | PAGE | |
| 1. | Names (epithets, attributes, &c. &c.) of Buddha (and also of Shakya) | 1 |
| 2. | Names of different Tathagatas (or Buddhas) | 6 |
| 3. | Names of the mansions of Buddha (Buddha bhumi), of the five bodies or aggregates of those that are equal and of the unequalled (of Adi Buddha and the five Dhyani Buddhas), and the names of the three persons or bodies of Buddha (substances) | 7 |
| 4. | Names of the ten powers of Tathagata (of Buddha) | 8 |
| 5. | Names of those four things in which a Tathagata is bold | 495 |
| 6. | Names of the eighteen pure religious articles of Buddha | 496 |
| 7. | Names of the thirty-two kinds of mercy of Tathagata | 499 |
| 8. | Names of the three kinds of clear recollection | 505 |
| 9. | Names of four things in which a Tathagata is inculpable | 506 |
| 10. | Names of the four kinds of discriminative knowledge | 507 |
| 11. | Names of the five kinds of eminent (special) knowledge | 508 |
| 12. | Names originating with the occasion of the six special knowledges | 508 |
| 13. | Names of the three miraculous transformations | 514 |
| 14. | Names of the thirty-two characteristic signs of the great man (Maha Purusha) | 181 |
| 15. | Names of the eighty points of beauty (on the body of a Tathagata) | 184 |
| 16. | Names of the excellence of Tathagata according to the Sutras | 171 |
| 17. | Names of the sixty branches (parts) of melody or harmony | 167 |
| 18. | Names of deep meditations (or ecstasies) according to the Sherchin or Prajna paramita system | 290 |
| 19. | General terms or names for a Bodhisatwa | 10 [[209]] |
| 20. | Names of different Bodhisatwas | 11 |
| 21. | Names of the deep meditations (ecstasies) of a Bodhisatwa | 514 |
| 22. | Names of the twelve dharanis (superhuman powers) of a Bodhisatwa | 515 |
| 23. | Names of the ten powers of a Bodhisatwa | 17 |
| 24. | Names of those ten things which are in the power of a Bodhisatwa | 517 |
| 25. | Names of those four things of which a Bodhisatwa is not afraid | 517 |
| 26. | Names of the eighteen unmixed (pure) laws of a Bodhisatwa | 519 |
| 27. | Names of the qualifications (or good qualities, perfections) of Bodhisatwas, according to the Sutras | 306 |
| 28. | Names of the mansions (Bhumis) or the several degrees of perfection of the Bodhisatwas | 18 |
| 29. | Names of the ten kinds of religious practices | 19 |
| 30. | Names of the ten transcendental (cardinal) virtues | 19 |
| 31. | Names of those four things by which moral merit is acquired | 523 |
| 32. | Names of the three kinds of acquirement | 523 |
| 33. | Names of the eighteen kinds of voidness or abstractedness (Shunyata) | 20 |
| 34. | Names of the four kinds of recollection | 22 |
| 35. | Names of those four things that must be entirely avoided | 524 |
| 36. | Names of four supernatural modes or means | 525 |
| 37. | Names of the five organs | 525 |
| 38. | Names of the five faculties or powers | 525 |
| 39. | Names of the seven branches of perfect wisdom | 23 |
| 40. | Names of the eight branches of the sublime way | 23 |
| 41. | Names of the different degrees of self-sainted persons (as are the Rishis or hermits) (Prentyak Buddhas) | 527 |
| 42. | Names of the several degrees of perfection of the hearers or disciples of Buddha or Tathagata | 24 |
| 43. | Names of divers hearers or disciples (of Shakya) | 26 |
| 44. | Names of the qualifications of (Shakya’s) hearers or disciples | 29 |
| 45. | Names of the twelve kinds of rigid qualifications | 74 |
| 46. | Names of the several Bhumis (degrees of perfection) of the Hearers or disciples (of Buddha) | 529 |
| 47. | Names of six things that ought to be remembered | 36 |
| 48. | Names of unpleasant or disagreeable things | 528 |
| 49. | Names of the several degrees of respiration (exhalation and inhalation) | 529 [[210]] |
| 50. | Names of the four excellent truths divided into sixteen minor truths | 535 |
| 51. | Names of the sixteen kinds of patience or forbearance in making reflections on or thinking of patience | 577 |
| 52. | Names of the ten kinds of knowledge | 579 |
| 53. | Four kinds of ways (or moments of actions) | 540 |
| 54. | } Names of the different kinds of vehicles (or principles) | 36 |
| 54. | } Names of the distinctions of mental organs (powers or faculties) | 541 |
| 55. | Names of the five kinds of Buddhistic perfection | 541 |
| 56. | Enumeration of the several kinds of Buddhistic scriptures | 542 |
| 57. | Names relating to the turning of the wheel of the law (by Shakya) | 546 |
| 58. | Names (or list) of religious tracts (current among the Buddhists) | 152 |
| 59. | Names of several terms relating to the doctrine of Buddha, and the manner and form of delivering it to the hearers | 162 |
| 60. | Names of the four kinds of meditation, &c. | 549 |
| 61. | Names of ecstasies | 552 |
| 62. | Names of the four immense things (in a Buddha) | 555 |
| 63. | Names of the eight kinds of liberation or emancipation | 556 |
| 64. | Names of the eight kinds of superior knowledge or conception | 560 |
| 65. | Names of the twelve accomplished or perfect sentiments | 567 |
| 66. | Names of the three doors of liberation or emancipation | 569 |
| 67. | Names of those four things on which one may rely | 569 |
| 68. | Names of the three kinds of wit or knowledge | 151 |
| 69. | Names of the five classes of science | 37 |
| 70. | Names of four moral maxims | 570 |
| 71. | Names of the seven precious (or good) things | 571 |
| 72. | Names of the most excellent six things | 572 |
| 73. | Names of the six kinds of benediction | 573 |
| 74. | Names of the nine good actions accompanied by great pleasure or delight | 573 |
| 75. | Names of those six bad things from which one should come out | 575 |
| 76. | Names of the four circles or kinds of goods and men | 577 |
| 77. | Names of rigid practices of abstinence, &c. | 577 |
| 78. | Names of abstract meditation on God, and the qualifications or perfections to be obtained by it | 580 |
| 79. | Names of the four kinds of thriving, that is, speaking, teaching, and prophesying | 582 |
| 80. | Names of the three kinds of criteria or definitions | 582 [[211]] |
| 81. | Names of the four kinds of thinking | 583 |
| 82. | Names of the nine kinds of ironical thought or conception | 583 |
| 83. | Names of being at rest and of seeing more, that is, the high degrees of fixed meditation | 584 |
| 84. | Names of the ten immoral actions | 192 |
| 85. | Names of the ten virtuous actions | 192 |
| 86. | Names of those things by which one may acquire moral merit | 193 |
| 87. | Names of true or real meaning of the Holy and True One | 194 |
| 88. | Names of deliverance from pain | 196 |
| 89. | Names of the several kinds of refuge and protection | 197 |
| 90. | Names of the several kinds of respect to be paid to a religious guide, &c. | 198 |
| 91. | Names of assiduity and diligent application | 201 |
| 92. | Names of the aggregate (the body), its regions and sensation, &c. | 204 |
| 93. | Names of the division of the corporeal objects | 204 |
| 94. | Names of the division of the aggregate of sensation | 211 |
| 95. | Names of the division of the aggregate of consciousness or perception | 211 |
| 96. | Names of notions or ideas formed of animate and of inanimate existences or beings | 211 |
| 97. | Names of the division of the aggregate, of equation, and of perfect knowledge | 219 |
| 98. | Names of the twelve senses or the vehicles of perfection | 219 |
| 99. | Names of the eighteen regions (of senses) | 220 |
| 100. | Names of the twenty-two organs | 222 |
| 101. | Names of the several terms used on the occasion of explaining the aggregate, its regions, and the senses | 224 |
| 102. | Names of affection, passion, lust, desire, and longing | 585 |
| 103. | Names of the three kinds of sorrow or trouble | 588 |
| 104. | Names of the eight kinds of sorrow | 588 |
| 105. | Names of the twelve branches of causal concatenation or dependent contingency | 39 |
| 106. | Names of the six causes | 589 |
| 107. | Names of the four accessory causes or effects | 590 |
| 108. | Names of the five fruits, viz., consequences, effects | 590 |
| 109. | Names of the four plans or ways of coming forth or being born | 591 |
| 110. | Names of the four kinds of food | 591 |
| 111. | Names of the nine places or abodes of animate existences | 591 [[212]] |
| 112. | Names of the eight undesirable things | 593 |
| 113. | Names of the consequences of moral actions or works, of their coming to maturity | 594 |
| 114. | Names of the five boundless (most atrocious) acts | 596 |
| 115. | Names of other five crimes approaching to the former | 597 |
| 116. | Names of the five sorts of dregs or degenerations | 597 |
| 117. | Names of eight common maxims or sayings | 598 |
| 118. | Names of all sorts of good qualities | 599 |
| 119. | Names of imperfections or defects | 608 |
| 120. | Names expressive of the chief Head of the pure, the liberated, or the emancipated | 614 |
| 121. | Names of being purified, liberated, or emancipated (purification or emancipation) | 616 |
| 122. | Names of relinquishing all imperfections and of becoming free | 618 |
| 123. | Names expressive of praise, blame, celebrity or renown | 623 |
| 124. | Names of opposite or contrary things | 626 |
| 125. | Names expressive of great, small, high, low, and similar adjectives | 629 |
| 126. | Names of the several degrees of acquaintance or familiarity | 632 |
| 127. | Names of virtue and blessings | 634 |
| 128. | Names expressive of speaking or hearing any religious tract; names expressive of noise, sound, expression or utterance | 636 |
| 129. | Names of several examples illustrative of illusion or unreality | 641 |
| 130. | Names of charity or alms-giving, and of oblations and sacrifices | 644 |
| 131. | Names of the several kinds of advantage and utility | 647 |
| 132. | Names of several terms expressive of the intellect, the understanding, the discrimination | 648 |
| 133. | Names expressive of the enumeration of the several sorts of learned men | 649 |
| 134. | Names of the enumeration of synonymous terms for profound or deep learning | 651 |
| 135. | Names of the enumeration of synonymous terms for joy or pleasure | 652 |
| 136. | Names expressive of anger of the several degrees of mischief or injury | 654 |
| 137. | Names of the four kinds of moral men | 656 |
| 138. | Names expressive of the life in this world and in the next; death and transmigration | 656 |
| 139. | Names expressive of solitude and retirement | 658 [[213]] |
| 140. | Names of the four kinds of abiding, or the manner of living | 658 |
| 141. | Names of the several degrees of shocks in an earthquake | 282 |
| 142. | Names of brilliancy, light, or lustre | 284 |
| 143. | Names of great and small powers | 275 |
| 144. | Names of the four great fabulous continents | 276 |
| 145. | Names of the several degrees of elevation of the three regions of the world | 278 |
| 146. | Names of the gods in the region of cupidity (or in the realm of Cupid) | 278 |
| 147. | Names of the mansion of the 1st degree of meditation | 279 |
| 148. | Names,, of,, the,, mansion,, of,, the,, 2d degree of meditation | 280 |
| 149. | Names,, of,, the,, mansion,, of,, the,, 3d degree of meditation | 280 |
| 150. | Names,, of,, the,, mansion,, of,, the,, 4th degree of meditation | 280 |
| 151. | Names of the pure (or holy) mansion | 281 |
| 152. | Names of the incorporeal mansions | 281 |
| 153. | Names of the gods inhabiting this or that world | 317 |
| 154. | Names of the nine planets | 322 |
| 155. | Names of the twenty moving stars (Nakshatras) | 322 |
| 156. | Names of gods, Nagas, &c. | 324 |
| 157. | Names of the Naga kings or princes | 325 |
| 158. | Names of common or ordinary Nagas | 331 |
| 159. | Names of the Yaksha king, or of the prince of the Yakshas | 335 |
| 160. | Names of the prince of the Gandharvas | 336 |
| 161. | Names of the five gods, the Daityas, Titans, giants, Asuras | 337 |
| 162. | Names of Vishnu’s bird, the Garuda, the prince of the winged creation | 338 |
| 163. | Names of the Prince of the Kinnaras | 339 |
| 164. | Names of the prince of the Mahoragas | 340 |
| 165. | Names of the Prince of the Kumbhándas | 342 |
| 166. | Names of the great Rishis | 40 |
| 167. | Names of the ancient Buddhistic learned men in India | 42 |
| 168. | Names of curious philosophical systems and sects | 44 |
| 169. | Names of the six Tirthika teachers (in Tibetan, Mu-stegs-pá-chen) | 47 |
| 170. | Names of the series of the universal monarchs | 47 |
| 171. | Names of the excellent qualities, and of the seven precious things of an universal monarch | 659 |
| 172. | Names of the sons or children of whom each universal monarch had a whole thousand | 660 |
| 173. | Names of the four divisions of troops | 662 [[214]] |
| 174. | Names of ordinary kings | 52 |
| 175. | Names of the Pandavas | 53 |
| 176. | Names of the several classes or ranks, dignities, occupations, and professions among men | 53 |
| 177. | Names of different castes or tribes | 66 |
| 178. | Names of parentage, consanguinity, &c. | 68 |
| 179. | Names of the several members and limbs of the body | 71 |
| 180. | Names of the several degrees of the formation of the embryo and of several ages of men | 79 |
| 181. | Names of old age and sickness | 81 |
| 182. | Names of places, countries, cities, towns, &c., mentioned in Buddhistic works | 82 |
| 183. | Names of mountains, fabulous and real | 85 |
| 184. | Synonymous names for sea or ocean, rivers, &c. | 86 |
| 185. | Names of trees | 135 |
| 186. | Names of terms originating with the Tantrika system | 110 |
| 187. | Names of signs for prognostication | 662 |
| 188. | Names of dialectical and sophistical terms | 664, 254 |
| 189. | Names of terms originating with the Nyáya doctrine | 262 |
| 190. | Names,, of,, terms,, originating,, with,, the,, Sankhya doctrine | 264 |
| 191. | Names,, of,, terms,, originating,, with,, the,, Mimansa | 267 |
| 192. | Names,, of,, terms,, originating,, with,, the,, Vaisheshika school | 268 |
| 193. | Terms of different dialectical systems | 271, 667 |
| 194. | Names of all sorts of theories | 271 |
| 195. | Names of fourteen theses that have not as yet been demonstrated or proved | 272 |
| 196. | Names of several terms expressive of the soul according to the Tirthika teachers | 274 |
| 197. | Names of twenty positions relating to annihilation | 667 |
| 198. | Names of grammatical terms | 670 |
| 199. | Inflections of a Sanskrit noun in the seven cases of all the three numbers | 672 |
| 200. | Names of the bad transmigrations or places of punishment after death | 343 |
| 201. | Names of several evil spirits (S. Preta, tib. Yidags, a ghost) | 343 |
| 202. | Names of all sorts of beasts into which bad or wicked men are supposed to transmigrate | 344 |
| 203. | Names of several Tartara, of the divisions of the hot Tartarus | 354 |
| 204. | Names of the several divisions of the cold Tartarus | 354 |
| 205. | Names of the eighteen classes of science | 37 |
| 206. | Names of mechanical arts and handicrafts | 356 |
| 207. | Names of all sorts of musical instruments | 359 [[215]] |
| 208. | Names of the several tunes or parts of harmony | 368 |
| 209. | Names of the several kinds of dances, and the manner of dancing | 361 |
| 210. | Names of the literature and religious practices of the Brahmans | 39 |
| 211. | Names of the six occupations of a Brahman | 362 |
| 212. | Names of all sorts of words and phrases for such as wish to understand the Sanskrit language | 362–382 |
| 213. | Names of the dwelling-place or residence of the gods; names of the best, &c. | 382 |
| 214. | Names of all sorts of indeclinable words | 88 |
| 215. | Names of castles, forts, and all sorts of dwelling-places | 94 |
| 216. | Names of the implements belonging to a cart or chariot | 100 |
| 217. | Names of all sorts of corn and pulse | 384 |
| 218. | Names of festivals or solemn days | 285 |
| 219. | Names of curds, butter, and several kinds of food | 286 |
| 220. | Names of drugs for curing diseases | 385 |
| 221. | Names of clothes or garments | 390 |
| 222. | Names of utensils, instruments, &c. | 393 |
| 223. | Names of pigments, paint, colours for painting and for dyeing stuffs | 395 |
| 224. | Names of precious things, as gems or jewels; gold, silver, &c. | 397 |
| 225. | Names of conchs or shells | 400 |
| 226. | Names of several sorts of ornaments | 401 |
| 227. | Names of all sorts of armour and weapon | 406 |
| 228. | Names of all sorts of implements and ornamentations used on the occasion of oblations or sacrifices | 409 |
| 229. | Names of all sorts of flowers | 411 |
| 230. | Names of the several parts of flowers | 417 |
| 231. | Names of the excellence of some flowers | 419 |
| 232. | Names of the incenses and perfumes | 419 |
| 233. | Names of all sorts of words, phrases (for the use of those who wish to understand the Sanskrit text) | 229–253 |
| 234. | The names of numerals, the definite and indefinite numbers, according to the Phal-chin division of the Kahgyur | 673 |
| 235. | Names occurring in the Sherchin Treatise of the Kahgyur | 676 |
| 236. | Names originating with the Lalita Vistara, in the second vol. of the mDo class of the Kahgyur | 680 |
| 237. | Names occurring in the mkong-mdsod or Sanskrit Abhidharma, of the Stangyur | 684 [[216]] |
| 238. | Names of the common numerals, of the inhabitants of the world | 421 |
| 239. | Names of all sorts of quantities and measures of distances from an atom to a Yojanam; a measure of 4000 fathoms | 426 |
| 240. | Names of the proportion of strength in a decimal progression | 428 |
| 241. | Names of time, and its subdivisions and seasons | 101 |
| 242. | Names of the corners and cardinal points or quarters, and intermediate corners of the world | 107 |
| 243. | } Names of the ten advantages derived from learning and discipline | 429 |
| 243. | } Names of the five classes of transgression, and of those of an indefinite character | 430 |
| 244. | Names of the four defects, or of the four great transgressions | 431 |
| 245. | Names of thirteen transgressions by which one is rendered a residue or dregs of the priests | 431 |
| 246. | Names of thirty transgressions, committed by accepting and using unlawful things, the wearing or carrying of which should be avoided | 432 |
| 247. | Names of the ninety transgressions | 435 |
| 248. | Names of those four transgressions that must be confessed to obtain forgiveness | 445 |
| 249. | Names of many things to be learned and observed | 446 |
| 250. | Names of seven terms for reconciling and settling disputes or quarrels | 460 |
| 251. | Names of punishment, chastisement, and correction | 460 |
| 252. | Names of entreating, addressing, petitioning, praying the priesthood, and of performing some ceremonies on certain occasions | 362 |
| 253. | Names of taking refuge with the three Holy Ones | 465 |
| 254. | Names of the eight fundamental articles to be learned and observed by those who enter into the religious order | 466 |
| 255. | Names of those four moral maxims that are repeated to him who will be made a Gelong (S. shramana) | 122 |
| 256. | Names of all sorts of religious persons | 122 |
| 257. | Names of several terms occurring in the Dulva, in the text entitled “The adopting of the religious order, or the taking of the religious character” | 126 |
| 258. | Names of the thirteen implements or utensils (of a religious person) | 468 |
| 259. | Names of utensils or implements of a Gelong | 469 [[217]] |
| 260. | Names of those twelve persons who perform several assigned duties on behalf of others | 477 |
| 261. | Names of the four classes of the Buddhists, together with their eighteen subdivisions | 479 |
| 262. | The seventeen subjects or matters of the Dulva | 481 |
| 263. | Names of the five sorts of water fit to be drunk by the priests | 483 |
| 264. | Names of reproaching or rebuking a Buddhist priest (S. Shramana; Tib. Gelong), or any other religious person | 484 |
| 265. | Names of a Bihar (sacred edifice), and several other places and things belonging to it | 486 |
| 266. | Names of the material or stuff of which garments are made | 487 |
| 267. | Some words and phrases taken or collected from the Dulva | 137 |
| 268. | Names of those six persons among the disciples of Sakya, who were known under the name of the six Tribunes (in Sanskrit, Shadvargikah) | 150 |
| 269. | Names of the four kinds of nurses | 151 |
| 270. | Names of diseases | 109 |
| 271. | All sorts of distempers, diseases, or sickness | 490 |
XVII.
A Comparative Vocabulary of Sanskrit, Hindi, Hungarian, &c., Words and Names.
A Fragment.