266 Journal of the Asiatie Society of Bengal. |July, 1913. 
Probably the Vasavadatta and the Pratijia Yaugandhara- 
yana of Bhasa were based on the famous akhyana-work, the 
Vasavadatta, noticed in the Maha-Bhashya. And allowing even 
fifty years for the earlier career of the Vasavadatta of the 
Maha-Bhashya, the traditions upon which Bhasa most likely 
has drawn, would be only 250 years removed from the reign of 
Darsaka.! If we confine ourselves to the date of Bhasa, on 
the evidence of Kalidasa alone, the data in Bhaisa must be 
placed earlier than the Mahavaméa by a century. If we take 
other pieces of evidence into account, cient are apparently alae 
by five centuries 
The Historical Data in Bhasa. 
Now let us take the historical data in Bhasa. These data 
re ‘— 
(II) That he contacted a political marriage® with Pad- 
mavati, Princess of “ees and sister to the sovereign of 
1 a — Resse scat a period (=before Pataiijal ye 
Nanda period. Mahapadma seals 28 years 
Wee. 37. 322, ashtavimgati varahani; it is not 88 in 
the Vayu, as supposed b y Teanga an Rafat and his 
son, 12 years (Vayu, 37, 329), 
118 =, Udayin, adivendbeos and Mahanandi. 
295 
—50 
» 
for earlier career of the akhyana. 
245 
2 Prati. Yaug., p. 3 
The Ka athe sani oeata confou two and makes Udayana ee 
nds the 
res i atseanenceues The Lalitavistara designates Udayana’s father 
alani, 
f ee ae Vatsa-rajah. Prati. Yaug., p. 31. 
> P- 
* Prati. Yaug. and 8. Vasava. , aon _On M ema see S. Vas 
ahi . i a Yaugandharayana Devyapanaye ka kriita te bud- 
a ug.—Kauéambi-matram paripalayamiti. 
King— 
gus. ing— Yaugandharayana, why this thy ‘psychology to harm the 
Ya ug.—For I wanted to serve the whole of (the state of) Kausambi.] 
