The Chronology of India, from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century c5.151

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| 503 | An embassy from Southern India visits China in the reign of Hsüan-wu Ti of the Northern Wei dynasty. In the same year an embassy from Central India brings products of the country to China.—JA., 3e série, viii, 274, 292. |
| 504 | Embassies from Northern and Southern India visit China. That from Southern India is said to have brought with it a branch of the Bodhi tree and a tooth of Buddha.—JA., 3e série, viii, 293. |
| 505 | Ś. 427, vernal equinox : commencement of the solar or sidereal year, Thursday, March 19th, epoch of Varāhamihira’s Pañchasiddhāntika. |
| 507 | Embassy from Southern India to China.—JA., 3e série, viii, 294. |
| 508 | Bodhiruchi, Śramaṇa of Northern India, arrives at Loyang where he translates several works until A.D. 535. Ratnamati, a Śramaṇa of Central India, translates three or more Buddhist works into Chinese.—BN. 426, 427. |
| | Embassy from Southern India to China.—Refs. under A.D. 507. |
| 510 | G. Saṁ. 191. Date of the Eraṇ inscription of the chieftain Goparāja, son of Mādhava and maternal grandson of the Śarabha king; recording his having fought a battle in conjunction with Bhānugupta, described as a powerful king of Eastern Mālava.—CI. iii, 91. |
| 515 | Mihirakula, Indo-Scythian of Śākala in the Panjab, succeeds his father, Toramāṇa. Mihirakula overthrew the Gupta power in Western and Central India, but was finally defeated at Kahror, about A.D. 530, by Yaśodharman, feudatory of Narasimhagupta, after which he retired to Kashmir. He is mentioned by Hiuen Tsang as a king of Śākala who was attacked, on account of his persecution of the Buddhists, by Bālāditya of Magadha, and defeated, his life being spared by intervention of the Queen mother, after which he retired to Kashmir and founded a kingdom. In Hui-wu T'ai-ssŭ's notes on the 179th paragraph of the Memorials of Śākya-Buddha Tathāgata, Mihirakula is mentioned as the king during whose persecution of the Buddhists Āryasiṁha, the twenty-third or twenty-fourth Patriarch, was murdered. The Rājatarangiṇī names him as a native king of Kashmir during the |