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¹ According to Tāranātha, Dignāga was a pupil of Vasubandhu. Works by him were translated into Chinese in 557 and 569 A.D. *Randle*, Fragments from Diṅnāga, p. 3, says: "All that can be said with certainty is that he lived somewhere between 350 A.D. and 500 A.D." *Cf.* Th. *Watters*, On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, II, 209 ff.; *Keith*, Buddhist Philosophy, p. 305 ff.; and *Stcherbatsky*, Nirvāṇa, p. 35. Translations of Dignāga's works on logic are to appear shortly, by Prof. *Stcherbatsky*, who wrote to me about it on 26th April, 1929: "You will be astonished to find among the Indians, especially Dignāga, a comprehensive system of critical philosophy. It has long been my conviction that we here have before us a most excellent achievement of the Indian mind, this conviction has now grown stronger than ever before, and I hope to be in a position to present it clearly."