A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s5.6

v2.c19.s5.6

² The themes discussed show remarkable similarity with those which play a prominent part in the Kathā-Vatthu. *Cf.* *Rhys Davids* in SBE, Vol. 36, pp. xx-xxvi. The allusion to the Thera Tissa (p. 71, SBE, Vol. 35, p. 110), "a master in the art of writing," who is said to have died many years before and "of whom people know only by his writings," would seem to point to a considerable, though not unduly protracted, interval of time between the author of the Milindapañha and Tissa Moggaliputta (if it is he who is meant) who lived in the 3rd century B, C.