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Paramarthā's Life of Vasubandhu and the Date of Kaniṣka

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

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References

1 Wassiljew, , Buddhismus, p. 69 (64).Google Scholar

2 Trans. Beal, i, p. 226Google Scholar, “in the middle of the thousand years,” which supports Professor Takakusu's view of the “nine hundreds”.

3 It would be still more authoritative, if Aśvaghoṣa belonged to the first century b.c. In any case the question of the date of Buddha is still open; the Greeks seem to represent the first nanda as Alexander's contemporary.