Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c9.s4.30

c9.s4.30

¹ It has been urged by some critics that pupils are not necessarily younger in age than their preceptors. It may freely be admitted that in particular cases pupils may be of the same age with, or even older than, the *guru*. But it is idle to suggest that in a long list of successive *āchāryas* and *śishyas* the presence of elderly pupils must be assumed except where the *guru* is known to be the father of the pupil. Individual cases of succession of elderly *śishyas* do not invalidate the conclusion that the average duration of a generation is as is suggested by Jacobi and Rhys Davids.