The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c30.4

c30.4

M. Noël Peri, whose arguments are based upon innumerable Chinese texts, upon the date of Harivarman's great work, translated by Kumārajīva (383–412 in China),¹ upon the date of the partial translation by Dharmaraksha between A. D. 414 and 421 of the *Yogāchārya bhūmi Śāstra* by Asanga, elder brother of Vasubandhu,² and upon other data, points out that Vasubandhu, who is said to have attained the age of eighty, lived in the fourth century and must have died soon after the middle of that century.³ M. Peri is unquestionably correct.