Ancient Indian Historical Tradition c32.86

c32.86

If then we work on these inferences according to the sequence in the table and with the scale proposed at page 182, we may estimate the periods when the teachers flourished, except as regards those of the Atharvaveda for whom there are no synchronisms. In the ninth century B.C. flourished Uddālaka in the first quarter, Śvetaketu about the middle, and Śakalya and Taṇḍiputra in the third quarter. In the eighth century Āsuri and Madhuka at the beginning, Pañcaśikha in the middle, and Asurāyaṇa and Yāska in the fourth quarter. In the seventh century Satyakāma in the second quarter. This estimate for Pañcaśikha agrees with Buddhist legends, which speak of him as long prior to Buddha.³