The Chronology of India, from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century c5.113

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| 381 | Sanghabhūti, a Śramaṇa of Kubhā, translates three Buddhist works into Chinese.—BN. 404. |
| 382 | Dharmapriya, an Indian Śramaṇa, translates the *Daśasāhasrikā prajñāpāramitā* into Chinese.—BN. 404. |
| 383 | Kumārajīva, the Śramaṇa, captured and taken to China by Lü Kuang, commander-in-chief under the Former Tsin dynasty, on his conquest of Kuchah. Kumārajīva stayed with Lü Kuang in Liang-chou, China, till A.D. 401, and between A.D. 402 and 412 translated numerous works, including the smaller *Sukhāvatī-vyūha* and *Vajrachchhedikā*, into Chinese. The exact date of his death is uncertain, but it occurred in the reign of An Ti of the Eastern Chin dynasty, A.D. 399–415.—BN. 406–7. |
| | Gautama Saṅghadeva, a Śramaṇa of Kao-fu, arrives at Chang-an where he translates two Buddhist works into Chinese. Went southward in A.D. 391, between which year and A.D. 398 he translated five other works.—BN. 399, 404. |
| 388 | Ś. 310. Rudrasimha III, Western Kshatrapa, son of Satyasimha. Satyasimha is known only from his son's coins; his date cannot, therefore, be fixed. As the Western Kshatrapas were conquered by Chandragupta Vikramāditya about G. Saṃ. 90 = A.D. 409, Rudrasimha may have been the last of the dynasty.—Refs. as above, see A.D. 226. |
| 389 | Ś. 311. The Nambūrīs and Nairs said to have rebelled against the king of Chera and seized his territories on the Malabar coast.—NO. iii, 61. *Trans. Madras Lit. Soc.*, pt. 1, 1827, p. 19. |
| 399 | Fa-hien, a Chinese Śramaṇa of Wu-yang, in the P‘ing-yang district, leaves Chang-an for India, with four companions, in A.D. 399 or 400, to search for copies of the *Vinayapiṭaka*. After visiting Northern India he proceeded by Mathurā to Kanauj which he reached about A.D. 405. He then continued by way of Śrāvastī, Kapilavastu, Kuśinagara, Vaiśālī, and Pāṭaliputra to Benares, subsequently spending three years in Pāṭaliputra, two in Tāmralipti, and two in Ceylon, where he arrived about A.D. 411. He returned by way of Java to China in A.D. 414 when, both alone and in conjunction with Buddhabhadra, he translated several works and compiled his Travels, *Fo-kwo-chi*; |