Ebook: The Book of Zambasta. A Khotanese poem on Buddhism

London: Oxford University Press, 1968. — 455 p.The title given to the Khotanese poem edited and translated here follows a suggestion made by Sir Harold W. Bailey, who has written a linguistic commentary entitled Prolexis to the Book of Zambasta. No title for the poem survives, but the colophons tell us that an official called Ysaṃbasta ordered it to be written (see the colophons to Chapters 2, 11, 13, and 19). It is therefore Ysaṃbasta's book in a special sense.