The Beginnings of Buddhist Art and Other Essays in Indian and Central-Asian Archaeology c10.64

c10.64

that is to say, to the IIⁿᵈ century B. C., it is no less evident that their *aṭṭhakathā* was not merely translated into Pāli, but also accommodated to the taste of the times by a cleric of the Vᵗʰ century of our era. It is a chasm of at least seven centuries that opens before our eyes between texts which at times some persons have desired to believe contemporaneous.