32* Chronology of Indian Authors^ a supplement to 



M. Duff's Chronology of India* 



By NiLMANi Chakravauti, M.A. (Besearch Scholar). 



Mabel Duff's most useful work, entitled The Choronology of 

 India^ was published in 1899. Since then many volumes of the 

 Reports and Catalogues of the operation of the search for Sans- 

 kirt MSS. have been published. The following chronology of 

 Indian authors, supplementing that of M. Duff, is the outcome of 

 a study of these Reports and Catalogaes. I have put in some 

 dates which escaped the notice of the distinguished authoress 

 and brought them down to 1700 a.b, 



A.D, 169 S'aka (?) 91. The date of translation of the Yavanajdtaka, 



from Greek, by Tavanesvara. H.P.S. Rep., p. 8. 

 „ 269 S'aka (?) 191. Sphurjjidhvaja turned the Yavanajataka 



into 4,000 Indravajra slokas. H.P,S. Rep., p. 8. 

 „ 479 V. Saip. 535. Death of Haribhadrasuri, a great Jaina 



scholar, author of 1,400 works. Peterson Rep, III., p. 3, 

 „ 557-569 The probable date of the Chinese translation of the Satpkhya- 



Jcdrika and commentary. B. K"., 378. 

 ^^ QQO Pfthuyasas, son of Varahamihira, wrote his HorasaP 



jpancasika about this time. I.O. Cat. No. 2992. 

 ^^ SoO Rajanaka Rama, the commentator of Kallata, who speaks 



of himself as a younger brother of Muktakana, a poet in the 



cornet of Avantivarman, belonged to this period. I.O. Cat. No. 



2525, Avantivarman was king of Ka^mir about 855 A.D. (See 



Duff's Chronology). 



860 Visakhadatta composed Mudraraksasy under the patronage 



of Avantivarma, king of Kasmir. Vienna Oriental Journal 



IL, 216. 



976 S'aka (?) 898, The date of Vacaspatimisra's Nydyasuct- 



nzbandha. Notice of Sanskrit MSS., second series. Vol II., p. xix. 

 See also Nydyavartika^ edited by Pandit Vindhyesvari prasada. 



„ 984 S^aka 906. The date of Atmatattvaviveka or Bauddhadhik- 



kara of Udayana. See Yadunatha Sarvabhauma's edition of Atma- 

 tattvaviveka. 



„ 1060 Cakrapanidatta, or more commonly Cakradatta, nephew 



of Narayana, the kitchen-superintendent of Nayapala, king of 

 Bengal, author of OikitsSsamgraha and other works. I.O. Cat 

 No. 2674. 



„ 1069 N.S. 189. The probable date of composition of the Dharma- 



patrika, a treatise on Yoga. It was composed during the reign 

 of Raja S'ankara, by M. M. H. P. S'astri. Nepal Catalogue 



Intro., p. xlvii. 



