Vol, ZS 5 9.) Dignaga and his Pramana-samaccaya. 227 
1300). One of Jina’s works was also translated about the same time 
and by the same translator (Nanjio’s Catalogue i. 10). We have 
already seen that Jina was identical with Dignaga. These lead us 
to conclude that Digniga flourished before 557 A.D. 
From Tibetan sources we have further found that Dignaga 
was a disciple of Vasubandhu. Now Vasubandhu! was contem- 
porary of Lha-tho-ri, King of Tibet who lived up to 371 A.D.4 
There seems to have existed a Sanskrit work on the life of Vasu- 
bandhu which was translated into Chinese by Kumarajiva A.D. 
4-409, These facts go to show that Vasubandhu lived in the 
middle of the 4th century A.D. and Dignaga about 400 A.D.* 
! Vide Pag-sam-jon-zang. 
* Csoma De Koros’s Tibetan Grammar, p. 182. 
» Nanjio’s Catalogue, Appendix i. 6 
- Takakusu in a very learned 
E akusu’s chief argument is that Samgha- 
bha 4 was a contemporary of Vasubandhu (vide Hwen thsang, I-tsing,. 
Paramirtha’s Life of Vasubandhu, etc.), and was the translator of the Saman- 
tapisidika of Buddhaghosa into Chinese in 488 A.D. 
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