Sanskrit Text of the Bodhisattva's Ten Stages in the Saṃdhinirmocanasūtra -Based on the Kathmandu Fragment of the Yogācārabhūmi-

I have been working to identify the Buddhist Sanskrit manuscript fragments called "Bendall's Puka" preserved in the National Archives of Nepal, Kathmandu. These fragments were first examined by Cecil Bendall about a century ago. A few studies on these fragments by Bendall and other scholars have appeared. A number of the folios, however, have remained unidentified until now. Among the manuscript fragments I have examined so far, there is an unique folio identified as a part of the Viniscayasamgrahani section of the Yogacarabhumi, which is a fifth century work compiling various passages from other sources that analyze the Buddha's teachings. It is a hermeneutical treatise which is regarded as being one of the most basic texts in the Indian Buddhist Y ogacara school. This folio extends from the final part of the Chapter VIII to first half of the Chapter IX of the Samdhinirmocanasutra. The entire Samdhinirmocanasutra is quoted in the Viniscayasamgrahani section in the Yogacarabhumi. The present study is limited to the Chapter IX part of the Samddhinirmocanasutra passages of this folio; recto side line four to the end of verso side. This section treats the bodhisattva's ten stages (dasabhumi). Here I have presented the Roman transcription, the critical edition, and Japanese translation of the text