The Chronology of India, from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century c5.158

c5.158

| A.D. | |
| 540 | Dharapaṭṭa, Mahārāja of Valabhī, brother and successor of Dhruvasena.—JBA. lviii, chart, p. 100. CI. iii, Int. 41. |
| 541 | An Indian embassy visits China in the reign of Taï-tsung.—JA., 3e série, viii, 383. |
| | Vimokshaprajña Ṛishi, or Vimokshasena (?), Śramaṇa of Udyāna (?), translated, with Prajñāruchi, five Buddhist works into Chinese.—BN. 429. |
| 548 | Paramārtha, a Śramaṇa of Ujjain, arrives in Chien-yeh (Nanking). Between the years 557 and 569 he translated numerous works into Chinese, dying in the latter year at the age of 70.—BN. 423, 424. |
| 550 | Īśānavarman, Maukhari, son and successor of Īśvaravarman: married Lakshmīvatī; contemporary with Kumāragupta of Magadha who is said, in the Aphsaḍ inscription of Ādityasena, to have defeated him. A coin of Īśānavarman’s is dated, according to Cunningham, in the year 257, according to Hoernle, in the year 245 of the Gupta era.—CASR. xv, 166; xvi, 81. CI. iii, 206. JBA. lviii, pt. 1, chart, p. 100. |
| 550 | Satyāśraya, Raṇavikrama, Śrī Pulikeśin or Polekeśin, Vallabha, Early Chālukya, son and successor of Raṇarāga: married Durlabhadevī of the Batpūra or Bappūra family. The Aihoḷe inscription represents him as removing his capital from Indukānti to Vātāpipura, now Bādāmi. He was probably the first king of the dynasty, and regarded later as its real founder.—IA. viii, 243. FKD., Bom. Gaz., 343-4. |
| | The Pañchatantra translated into Pahlavi by command of the Sassanian king Nūshīrvān (A.D. 531-579).—WL. 212. |
| 552 | Buddhism said to have been introduced into Japan from Korea, in the thirteenth year of King Kin Mei Teno (A.D. 540-571).—Klaproth, *Annales des Empereurs du Japon*, 34. |
| 557 | Narendrayaśas, Śramaṇa of Udyāna in Northern India, translates, together with Fa-chǐ, *i.e.* Dharmajñāna, seven Buddhist works into Chinese between A.D. 557 and 568, and eight works between A.D. 582 and 585, dying in 589.—BN. 432. |