• Chimpa, THBI, p. 325 (Masurakṣita or Vasurakṣī).

Bibliography:

• Nītiśāstra (Lugs kyi bstan bcos). Tôh. no. 4335. Dergé Tanjur, vol. NGO, folios 137v.6-143r.7. Tr. by Dharmaśrībhadra and Shākya blo gros.
  • Moonlight, pp. 597-611.
  • Discussion by Pathak in Mishra, GSBL, pp. 80-81.
  • S.K. Pathak, The Nītiśāstra of Masurakṣa, Vishvabharata Annals, vol. 10 (1961), pp. 1-52.
  • Ludwik Sternbach, Review of S. Pathak, Nītiśāstra of Masurakṣa, Journal of the American Oriental Society, vol. 83 (1962), pp. 407-411.
  • Sternbach, IWSI, pp. 103-104. The name Masūrākṣa is mentioned only once in Vallabhadeva's Subhāṣitāvalī as the author of a verse (but this verse is a Pañcatantra verse in its origins). Sternbach thinks this person has nothing to do with the Tanjur author. He dates the Tibetan translator Shākya blo gros to the 11th century. There are altogether 129 verses divided into seven adhyāyas, containing 12, 15, 19, 21, 16, 26, and 19 verses.
  • Hugh Meredith Flick, Jr., Carrying Enemies on Your Shoulder: Indian Folk Wisdom in Tibet, Sri Satguru Publications (Delhi 1996).
  • Sternbach, SGDL, p. 40, says it was lost in India.