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¹ The date 200 A.D. has been assigned to the *Harivaṃśa* on the ground of the occurrence of the word *dināra*. See Hopkins, *Great Epic of India*, p. 387; Winternitz, *A History of Indian Literature* (Cal. Ed. Vol. I, 1927, p. 464) remarks "We may assume that it did not come into existence very long before the 4th century A.D." R. G. Bhandarkar (*Vaisnavism*, p. 36) assigns it to "about the third century of the Christian era."