Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v1.c12.34

v1.c12.34

If this conclusion of Bhāmaha’s probable priority is accepted, then we get his date as the upper limit to that of Daṇḍin, the lower limit being, as already discussed, the same as that of Bhāmaha, namely the date of Udbhaṭa’s contemporary, Vāmana. Daṇḍin, therefore, flourished probably in the beginning or in the first half of the 8th century.