Note 24 — INTRODUCTION.
Anton Schiefner translation
The first of its two parts, he remarks, is styled Ká-gyur, or vulgarly Kán-gyur,24 i.e., “Translation of Commandments,” being versions of Sanskrit writings imported into Tibet, and translated there between the seventh and thirteenth centuries, but mostly in the ninth. The copy on which he worked at Calcutta, consisting of 100 volumes, “appears to have been printed with the very wooden types that are mentioned as having been prepared in 1731.” This first part comprises seven divisions, which are in fact distinct works. These he names as follows:—