The Chronology of India, from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century c5.159

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| A.D. | |
| 559 | G. Sam. 240, 246, 247, 248 on copper-plates. Guhasena of Valabhī, son and successor of Dharapaṭṭa.—IA. iv, 174; v, 206; vii, 66; xiv, 75. BI. 30. |
| 561 | Jñānagupta, Śramaṇa of Gandhāra, translated numerous works into Chinese between A.D. 561 and 592, dying in A.D. 600.—BN. 433. |
| 564 | Jñānayaśas, Śramaṇa of Magadha, translated, together with his disciples Yaśogupta and Jñānagupta, six Buddhist works into Chinese between A.D. 564 and 572.—BN. 431. |
| 567 | (Bādāmi cave inscription Ś. 500, in twelfth year of reign) Kirtivarman I, Raṇaparākrama, Early Chālukya, succeeds his father Pulikeśin I. Married a sister of the Sendraka king Śrī-vallabha-Senānanda. Claims to have subdued the Naḷas, the Mauryas of the Northern Koṅkaṇ, the Kadambas of Banavāsi (Aihoḷe inscription); the kings of Vaṅga, Aṅga, Kaliṅga, Vaṭṭūra, Magadha, Madraka, Keraḷa, Gaṅga, Mūshaka, Pāṇḍya, Dramiḷa, Choḷiya, Āḷuka, and Vaijayantī (Mahākūṭa inscription). Ruled till A.D. 597.—IA. vi, 363 ff.; viii, 243; x, 57; xi, 68 ff. (undated inscription at Āḍūr); xix, 14. BD. 49, 50. FKD., Bom. Gaz., 344 ff. |
| 571 | G. Sam. 252–272 on copper-plates. Dharasena II, of Valabhī, son and successor of Guhasena.—IA. i, 17, 60 ff. (or JBRAS. x, 66 ff.); vi, 9; vii, 68, 70; viii, 301. CI. iii, 164. BI. 30 ff. |
| | An Indian embassy to China, bringing products of the country, is mentioned in the official memoirs of Hsüan Ti, in the annals of the Chên dynasty.—JA., 3e série, viii, 291. |
| 577 | Gautama Dharmajñāna, Upāsaka of Vārāṇasī (Benares), and eldest son of Prajñāruchi (A.D. 538), appointed governor of the Yang-chuan district by the Northern Chou dynasty. In A.D. 582 he was recalled to the capital by Wen Ti, first emperor of the Sui dynasty, and translated one Buddhist work.—BN. 432. |
| 578 | Kalyāṇavarman, the astronomer, probably flourished about this date. He lived after Varāhamihira, and was possibly a contemporary of Brahmagupta.—Gaṇakatarangiṇī, ed. Sudhākara, The Pandit, N.S., xiv, 16. |