1919.] Buddhaghosa’s Commentaries. 121 
embodied in the Puggala Pafifiatti commentary.' Supposing 
that Kumara Gupta of the Imperial Gupta dynasty was a con- 
temporary of king Mahanama of Ceylon and that Buddhaghosa 
was a younger contemporary of Thera Buddhadatta, it follows 
that king ee ee of Kalamba Dynasty was a contem- 
porary of Kumara Gu 
It is conceivable ‘that the Buddhist monastery where 
Buddhaghosa met Thera Revata was situated somewhere in 
South India, say, near the upper banks of the Godavari. Buddha- 
ghosa’s knowledg ge of South India below the Godavari is next 
of an rout minis a between an Ar ryan prince and an 
princess. Thus it would be more true to fact to suppose that 
as far back as the eighth century B.C. Asvaka was an Aryan 
kingdom. The Parayamvagga of the Suttanipata speaks of 
a trade route or a sort of trunk road extending from Savatthi 
to as far south as Patitthana.* In Buddhaghosa’s time Asvaka 
and Mulaka were two Andhra kin doms. 
island in the midst of the Godavari.?' In an interesting passage 
of the Sumangala-Vilasini, he has described ot eg a local 
aboriginal custom of bleaching human bones.* oreover we 
cannot fail to find in him anticipations of the Mayavada of 
ankara. Matter summed up in terms of the four gross ele- 
i owable. f 
1 Cf. Puggala Pafifiatti yg seag ie 8., p. 173. 
2 Paramatthajotikaé, II, Vol. ee p- 5 
3 Chandogya Upanishad V. II. 4. ‘ See Buddhist ere 2 103 
5 Atthasalini, p. 140. umangala-vilasini I, p. 265. 
‘ chair mgete II, Vol. 2, p. sai. 
umangala-vilasini aint, 1. P. ** Dhopananti.” 
