[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Archaeology, epigraphy and coins](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy) › [The Chronology of India, from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.duff-1899) › c5.24 # The Chronology of India, from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century c5.24 The Chronology of India, from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century c5.24 - **Language:** English ### [c5.24](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.duff-1899.c5.24) 477 Buddha's death in the eighth year of Ajātaśatru, and calculated from the accession of Chandragupta, Maurya, which it preceded by 162 years. Singhalese tradition places it in B.C. 543, Rhys Davids assigns it to about B.C. 412, Westergaard and Kern to between 388 and 370 B.C.—JBA. xxiii, 704. CASR. iii, 126. IA. vi, 154. - [Previous: c5.23](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.duff-1899.c5.23) - [Next: c5.25](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.duff-1899.c5.25) - [Up: c5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.duff-1899.c5) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.duff-1899.c5.24](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.duff-1899.c5.24) · Pramāṇa