मध्यमकशास्त्रम्- Madhyamakasastra of Nagarjuna (An Old and Rare Book)

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This edition of the Madhyamakaśāstra of Nagarjuna with the commentary called Prasannapada by Candrakīrti is mainly based on the one edited by Louis de la Valleé Poussin and published in the BIBLIOTHECA BUDDHICA, Vol. IV, St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1912 (referred to as B in the margin). There was an earlier edition of this work, published by BUDDHIST TEXT SOCIETY, Calcutta, in 1897 and edited by Saraccandra Sastri. This Calcutta edition is full of mistakes, and its value is no more than a manuscript in print. It was used by Poussin for what it was worth, but he also used two Mss., one from Paris and the other from Cambridge. Further, he checked his Text of Kärikäs as well as of Candrakīrti's commentary with the help of Tibetan Translations. He added a number of useful indices and exhaustive foot-notes, textual and exegetical. Out of his notes, textual ones are retained with some modi- fications by me at the foot of the page below the text, while I have made as much use as possible of his exegetical notes in my CRITICAL NOTES printed at the end of the Volume. Since Poussin's edition was out in 1912, many Buddhist works in original Sanskrit have been printed in Europe, India, America and Japan, and I have added references to them in the body of my text as well as in Critical Notes. Poussin's edition is long out of print. I had the good fortune of studying this very work at his feet in 1921 22, and hence I thought it my duty to bring out a new edition with a number of additions and alterations. I

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