Sacred Texts Buddhist Articles   of Nagarjuna   A Volume of
Sketches,           p. 302    The "Ekashloka Shastra,"
translated from the Chinese, with an analysis and notes.1  THE
author of the original work, of which a translation is here
given from the Chinese version, was the patriarch "Nagarjuna"
(or Lung-shu), of whom much has been said in the preceding part
of this book. Beside being the writer of many of the more
important Shastras, he also composed several of the Sutras,
though these works are generally attributed to Shakyamuni
Buddha. A keen reasoner, acute thinker, and voluminous author,
such as Nagarjuna, deserves to be better known, and it is hoped
that the following translation of one of his lesser works will
prove not altogether useless in the elucidation of Buddhism.
   It is called Yih-shu-lu-kia-lun, the "Shastra of One shloka."
The three characters shu-lu-kia are in old Chinese pronunciation
sho-lo-ka. When a double consonant begins a syllable, it is
usual to employ the same vowel after each