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 [- § 46 Chandra School: Later History the rand of aufs. No work on Paribhashas in connection with the Chändra school has come down to 11s. 61 Besides the above grammatical works Chandragomin is credited with the authorship of a religious poem called Sishyalekha, and a drama called Lokānanda, neither pro- bably of much consequence. 9 46. Later history of the Chandra school. We have already alluded to Chandragomin's own vritti on his grammar. Fragments from it extending from about v. 1. 13 to v. 1. 176 are still extant. This vritti was later incoporat- ed in a commentary by Dharmadasa, a complete Ms. of which exists in the Library of the Maharaja of Nepal. It is undoubted that there must have been written numerous commentaries on the Chandra Vyakarana during the palmy days of Buddhistic literature; and they must have been very popular, seeing that a good many of them have been translated and freely circulated in Tibet at least since 1000 A. D., if not earlier, when Sthiramati, one of the translators of most of the Chandra texts in the Tibetan language, probably lived. Some of these works had also gone to Ceylon along with other Buddhistic texts. However, at present, in addition to the works above mentioned, only a few more about fifteen-are known to exist, mostly in Tibetan translations. Such of the Sanskrit Mss. as we know of, come all from Nepal. Having once enjoyed such a vast circulation, the almost total disappearance of the system from India re- quires explanation. We can account for this fact, firstly, on the ground of its want of originality, such of the original matter as there was-and it was not much-be- of the only Ms. of the work 1 For a list of these see Ind. Ant, known to exist. See Appen- xxv, pp. 103 and following. dix 1.