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The Chronology of India, from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century c5.117

The Chronology of India, from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century c5.117

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c5.117

404 Puṇyatara, a Śramaṇa of Kipin, translates into Chinese, with Kumārajīva, the *Sarvāstivādavinaya*.—BN. 408. Shih Ch'-Mang, the Chinese Buddhist, leaves China for India with fourteen friends, four of whom go with him as far as Pāṭaliputra. He returned in A.D. 424 with one surviving companion; translated between A.D. 433 and 439 the *Nirvāṇa-sūtra*, and died about A.D. 453.—BN. 412.

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