The Chronology of India, from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century c5.101

c5.101

160 Nāgārjuna, fourth Buddhist Patriarch in succession to Pārśva. According to Hiuen Tsang, he was patronized by a king of the So-to-po-ho (Sātavāhana ?) family, possibly Yajñaśrī Śātakarṇi, but great uncertainty exists as to his real date. A Tibetan life of Nāgārjuna states that he travelled widely in Southern India, converted Muñja, king of Oḍiviśa (Orissa), and erected vihāras there and elsewhere; also that he surrounded the great shrine of Dhānyakaṭaka with a railing. His patriarchal rule is said to have lasted sixty or sixty-two years.—B.ASSI. i, 5 ff. Jour. Pāli Text Soc. 1886, pp. 1-4.