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good materials, they failed to produce a connected history of the patriarchate
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In the Introduction to the first edition, p 4, I tried to show that Mahavira's Nirvana occurred 155 years before Candragupta's accession to the throne, and to justify my result in opposition to Professor Buhler's criticism, I now reopen the discussion of this important question, and bring to bear on it facts which have since been discovered and make it appear in a novel light
Hemacandra states, Parisistaparvan VIII 339, that 155 years after the liberation of Mahavira Candragupta became king
एव च औमहावौरमुक्तेर्वर्षशवे गते । पचपञ्चाशदधिके चन्द्रगुप्तोऽभवन्नृप ॥
Merutunga in the Vicaraśreni quotes this verse and dismisses it as contradicted by all other sources1, which place the same event sixty years later (215 AV) But the former date is confirmed by Bhadresvara in his Kahavali
एव च महावीरमुत्तिसमयाच्चो पचावयवरितसर पुछसे (read उच्छिषे ) agaû qayat crar strofa /
"And thus, since the overthrow of the Nanda dynasty 155 years 37 So in after Mahavira's liberation, Candragupta became king' spite of the general tradition the genuine one had somehow lingered on The date 155 AV for Candragupta's accession to the throne cannot be far wrong, since the Buddhists place that event in 162 A.B. If we assume the earliest possible date 322 BC-as the beginning of Candragupta's reign, the corrected date of Buddha's death comes out 484 B.C, and that of
1 The statement is contained in the memorial verses
का रयपि कालगधो परिक्षा तित्यकरो महावौरो । a cafumafñat afèferit med ca || 2 ||| सौ पालगरलो पणवसस्य तु होइ नदाण । agua yftura Åle fau gufany 1 ? A बलमित्तभायुभित्ता सट्ठी वरिषाणि चन नहवहणे । तह गद्दभिरन्न तेरस वासे समस्त चऊ ॥ ३ ॥
