The Chronology of India, from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century c5.155

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520 Kumāragupta II, Kramāditya, son and successor of Narasimhagupta.—JBA. lviii, pt. 1, chart, p. 100. JRAS., n.s., xxv (1893), 83. Dronasimha, Mahārāja of Valabhī, son of Bhaṭārka, brother and successor of Dharasena I. The Māliyā copper-plate states that Dronasimha was “anointed in the kingship by his paramount sovereign in person”; this sovereign being possibly identical either with Narasimhagupta or Yaśodharman.—Māliyā copper-plate, CI. iii, 168, and refs. under Bhaṭārka and Toramāṇa, A.D. 495. Bodhidharman, twenty-eighth Buddhist Patriarch, flourished. Left India for China about this date.—Beal’s *Si-yu-ki*, i, 119, 120, notes; ii, 251, note 35. Dignāga of Kāñchī, pupil of Vasubandhu, and his contemporary Guṇaprabha, the guru of King Harsha of Thāneśar, may be placed between the years 520 and 600 A.D. Dignāga wrote the *Pramāṇa-Samuchchaya*.—Vassilief, *Le Bouddisme*, 78, 206. ZDMG. xxii, 726. WL. 209, n. 19.