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Pp. 697-703. Chronology. B.C. 540-468. Vardhamana Nātaputra, Mahavira.
Traditional date 600-528 B.C. Pārsva, the predecessor of Mahavīra aj tirthankara, is said to have died 250 years before him.
B.C. 321-184. The Maurya dynasty. B.C. 321-297. Chandragupta.
The Jain authorities give the year of his accession as 313 (312) B.C. a date at which the canon of the Jain scriptures was fixed. Megasthenes at the court of Chandragupta. C. 300 B.C..
Bindusära or Amitrochates, successor of Chandragupta : his reign variously stated as of 25, 27 or 28 years.
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SUBRAHMANYA AYYAR, K. V. Notes on Kalinga History. (QJMS, xii, 1922. pp. 247-260).
Pp. 258-259. In the 13th year of his reign, Khāravela erected pillars etc., on the Kumāriparvata (i.e., Khandagiri) and improved the tomb shrine (Visidhika) of certain Jain monks (Arhats)- A cave for the Jain monks of Kalinga established by his chief queen.
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DEB, Harir Krishna. l’ikramāditya and his era. (Zeitschrift für Indologie und Iranistik, Leipzig. i, pp. 250-402, 1922).
Pp. 299-301. Jain chronology and the evidence of inscriptions.
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SUNAVALA, A. J. Vijaya Dharma Sūri, his life and work, with a prefatory note by F. W. Thomas. Cambridge, 1922.
The work in 18 chapters forms a comprehensive account of the life of the great Jaina monk,
