The Chronology of India, from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century c5.86

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Aśvaghosha, the twelfth Buddhist Patriarch. According to 80 Chinese accounts contemporary with Kanishka. Said to have been a Brahman of Eastern India who, after his conversion by Vasumitra, president of the Buddhist Council, settled in Kashmir. The *Alaṅkāralikaśāstra* and the *Buddhacharitakāvya*, the latter of which was translated into Chinese about A.D. 414–421, are ascribed to him by I-tsing.—*Memoranda of the Russian Mission at Pekin*, ii, 156 ff. Wassiljew, *Der Buddhismus, seine Dogmen, Geschichte, und Literatur*, 47, note; 66, 71, 75, 77, 132, 202, 211. Beal, *Abstract of Four Lectures on Buddhist Literature in China*, 95. SBE. xix, Int. xxx; xlix, Int. ix. Beal’s *Si-yu-ki*, ii, 100, 101, 302. Fuyishama, JA., 8e série, xii, 425. Peterson, JRAS. 1891, 334; and JBRAS. xviii, 284 ff.