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¹ In 483 B.C. according to the system of chronology adopted in this work; or in 478 (477) B.C. as appears more probable to the present writer. For a full discussion of the dates of Mahāvīra and Buddha, on the assumption that the Vikrama era began in 57 B.C., see Charpentier, *Ind. Ant.*, 1914, pp. 118 ff., 125 ff., 167 ff.