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PREFACE.
I WENT to Nepal for the purpose of examining MSS. in
the Darbar Library in 1907 and I took notes of certain
palm-leaf MSS. and paper MSS. in that Library. When
editing these notes for the second volume of my Nepal
Catalogue in 1915 I found that a MS. entered there as
Tattva-dasaka was a collection of short works the last
few leaves of which had that name. When I went again
there in 1922 I examined the MS. carefully and found that
it is a collection of 21 or 22 works mostly by Advaya-
vajra on points relating to Buddhism almost chronologic-
ally arranged. The scope of the work ranged from the
time of the rise of Mah膩y膩na to the time of Advayavajra
in the eleventh or early twelfth century. The age of
Advayavajra has been fixed by Dr. Benoytosh Bhatt膩-
charyya in his Introduction to the S膩dhanam膩l膩. So I
need not dilate upon it. The 22 short works seemed to
me to be very important for the history of Buddhism,
because (1) they gave much information that was not
found in the works on Buddhism written up to date from
Indian, Tibetan, Chinese or other sources, (2) because
they came from an Indian source, and (3) because they
threw light on the period of Buddhism scarcely studied,
namely, from the time when the Chinese ceased to come
to almost the time of the fall of the P膩la dynasty.
I therefore took care to copy the MS.; I myself
dictated the work to my son K膩lito峁�a who wrote it from
me I compared his writing with the MS. several times
and His Grace the R膩jaguru Hemar膩ja had the two
compared by his pupils who were students of pal忙o-
graphy with me. Thus I thought the copy to be faith-
ful and I was anxious to get it printed. His High-
ness the Mah膩r膩j膩 Say膩j墨r膩o Gaekwad lent me the