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There are several versions of the Suvarnaprabhasa (Suv) 1). All of them except Suvc , the oldest version of this sutra, share a later-attached part2', which appears in Chapter I Tat hagatayuhpramananirdesaparivarta. As this part seems to be out of context, J. Nobel has suggested the possibility of its having been added by mistake from some other text3'. Three main subjects of this interpolated part are "the eternity of tathagatadharmakaya", "showing nirvana as upayakausalya" and "relics (d hatu) of buddha". It contains quotations from the Jataka No. 425 (Ja 425). To explicate this part may therefore shed some light on both the thought and the process of formation of the entire sutra. But no precise examination has been made of this part to date. Almost parallel phrases corresponding to this interpolated part appear in the Mahameghasutra (MMS) 4). Considering that the translator of MMSc, Tan-wu Chen (曇 無 識385-433), also translated Suvc , there is every possibility that the phrases attached to Suv already existed in MMS when Tan-wu Chen was translating Suv. The main purpose of MMS is to teach the eternity of tathagata, while that of Suv is to give instruction on the doctrine of confession (desana). "The eternity of tathdgatadharmakaya" , "showing nirvana as upayakausalya" and "relics (dhdtu) of buddha" all play a more central roll in MMS than in Suv. Furthermore, the Litsavi youth named Sarvalokapriyadarsana, who appears in Suv only in the interpolated part and has no influence upon the other parts of Suv, is a main character in MMS. We can thus tentatively conclude that MMS is prior to, and indeed one of the origins of this interpolated part".

The Mahameghasutra as an Origin of an Interpolated Part of the Present Suvarnaprabhasa