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36. Some Notes on the Dates of Subandhu and Din-naya.—By 
Haraprasap SAstri. 
Since the publication of an edition of the Vasavadatta by 
Edward Hall, in the Bibliotheca Indica, in 1859, the date of its 
author is taken to be either the end of the sixth century or the 
beginning of the seventh. The reason assigned by Hall for 
cessors. 
However unsatisfactory the reason might be, the Orientalists 
have accepted the above date for Subandhu. The question, how- 
ever, is still an open one; and here are facts which may be taken 
for what they are worth. 
iscoursing he excellencies of style, Vamana, who 
ry AD., In his Kavyalankara Sitra 
Vrtti, quotes a verse as an example of the excellency named 
Significance (sibhiprayatva). 
he verse or rather hemistich runs thus :— 
“atsa eafa waqTata: wAVATET TAT | 
stat yufaaise: aafuat feegt aati: |” 
“ The celebrated son of Candragupta, the young raja Candra- 
prakéa, has become the refuge of learned men, and fortunately 
his labours are successful.” 
ommenting on this the author says, that the words, “the 
refuge of learned men,” are significant, because they bring to 
mind the fact that Subandhu was one of his ministers. 
empire and the second his grandson. The second Candragupta 
ra 
48 Ministers, 
8 Candragupta’s inscriptions range from 400 to 414 a.p., 
Subandhu must have floiwrished about that time, 7.e., in the 
beginning of the fifth century. ; : 
ere may be an objection to this, that in some MSS. 
the word is not Subandhu but Vastubandhu. But there is no such 
Buddhist monk who would not accept office and would not be 
Spoken of with fayour by a Hindu writer. Vastubandhu is only, 
I believe, a scribe’s mistake for Subandhu. 
