The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c11.19

c11.19

The variety of dates assigned for the death of Buddha is almost past counting.³ Diwan Bahadur L. D. Swamikannu Pillai, working from the week-days recorded for events of Buddha's life, as given by Bigaudet, finds that they suit Tuesday, April 1, 478 B. C., which, consequently, he regards as the true date of Buddha's death (*Ind. Ant.*, Oct. 1914 (vol. xliii), pp. 197–204). Three other arguments confirm the approximate date as being 487 or 486 B. C. :—