Foll. 256, 261, 285, 299 and 365 are wanting. Fol. 154 was passed over in numbering the leaves.

A series of conversations between Sūrya and his charioteer Aruṇa (Kāśyapa) on the evils of human existence, their causes and remedies.

The introductory section, treating of astronomical and astrological subjects, ends fol.65r. The rest of the work deals exclusively with th edifferent diseases and maladies which are represented as the fruit of our actions in a former existence (vipāka), and have to be atoned for in this life. The pathological descriptions are sometimes very detailed, but the method of their cure is entirely of the piacular order; medical treatment being jealousely excluded, and almost every case being represented as duścikitsyatama, and only to be approached by penance, sacrifice and donations to the officiating priests. In this respect the work is of a similar nature to those on Vipāka described under nos. 1763-68.

The Ms. breaks off abruptly four lines after the completion of the chapter āmavātādhikāraḥ fol.404v.

For another MS. of this work see Weber, Berl. Cat.,p.287. Also in British Museum collection Or.1254, a complete MS in 466 ff., of which all after fol. 329 is new matter not contained in our Ms; leading off in its latter portion, into paurānṇik legends, with different interlocutors, regarding the sun-god. The introductory portion of the British Museum MS., as far as fol.37, although identical in matter, differs completely from this and the Berlin Mss.

"iti śrījñānabhāskare karmaprakāśike sūryārūṇasaṃvāde prāktanakarmajñānopāyanirūpaṇaṃ|| f. 65r "