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The Chronology of India, from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century c5.174

The Chronology of India, from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century c5.174

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c5.174

The poet Bāṇa, author of the Śrīharshacharita, Kādambarī, and the Chaṇḍikāśataka; Mayūra, author of the Sūryaśataka; Daṇḍin, author of the Daśakumāracharita and the Kāvyadarśa; and Divākara flourished, being contemporaries of Harshavardhana of Kanauj. Jaina tradition makes Mayūra the father-in-law of Bāṇa. To the same period belongs Mānaṭuṅga, author of the Bhaktāmarastotra.—Bühler, Die indischen Inschriften. Peterson’s Subhāshitāvali, Int. 88. VOJ. iv, 67.

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