The History of Indian Literature c9.91

c9.91

²¹⁹ A very definite chronological detail would be furnished by v. 14, provided Mallinátha's assertion is warranted, to the effect that this verse is to be taken in a double sense, *i.e.*, as referring at the same time to Diṅnága, a violent opponent of Kálidása. For in that case we should in all probability have to understand by Diṅnága the well-known Buddhist disputant of this name, who lived somewhere about the sixth century; see my discussion of this point in *Z. D. M. G.*, xxii. 726 ff.