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ere is ay oie in Subandhu’s own work Vasavadatta 
seem. firm my conclusion. In th Laika to his 
everyone's hand was at his neighbour’s throat. It seems that on 
ae? a of repr he there ~ a civil war, and Subandhu 
e to grief, by supporting a losing ca The successor of 
Candragpta Vikramaditya was “ug: Pm and not Candra- 
prakasa. 
Kern in his “ Indian Buddhism” puts down Dinnaga between 
520 and 600 a.p. The Chinese think that he flourished in 
the tenth century of the Buddhist era, i.e., between 420 and 520 
A.D. Behera s in his paper on the date of ee has 
shown fro the dotted Buddhist. records left by Indian 
pandits in Chinese monasteries, that the date of Buddha's death 
is very nearly the same as has been arrived at by the Orientalists 
0 . vizZ., 
ot a quo otation from Difnaga’s work in Haribhadra’s 
famous oe entitled “ Saddargana Samuccaya.” i says that the 
definition of Pratyaksa or oe is TETAS digayrd—and he 
Ae It is well known that Dinnaga discarded Sabda, 
or dogma, from the sources of right raion and fixed the 
number of these sources at two; and Dinnaga’s definition of 
Pratyaksa is known to be aMaATsTisayie. So the quotation is. 
from Dinnaga. 
Haribhadra was one of the great Jaina writers whose date 
of death is fixed by the universal tradition amongst the J. ainas, at 
535 Vikrama samvat, z.e., 479 a.p. The dates are given in 
i Prakrta gathaés, in pp. 372 and 378, vol. iv. Peterson’s 
port 
A “atady of Haribhadra’s work confirms the oo that he 
belonged to about the fifth century s.p. He does not know 
Vedanta as a a. of Philosophy. He enumerates ‘he ‘following 
as the six system 
Banddha  Neiyajiks, Samkhya, Jaina, Vaisesika aad Mimam- 
saka. But, says he 
vila. 
If Baribhadee, before 479 a.p., quotes from Difnaga and 
adopts his view as universally accepted by Buddhists, Tiina 
must have flourished some time before hi 
ajira Sugiura, who writes a mon ograph on Hindu ne 
selves as Mahayanist writers. Takakusu places Vas ubandhu in 
the reign of Skan es and his son Baladitya in the seventies 
