A History of Indian Literature v2.c20.s3.13

v2.c20.s3.13

³ That is, according to the usual calculation, in the year 4 A.D. As in the work itself the terms dīnāra and lagnā occur, and there is mention of Yavanas and Śakas, *Jacobi* (Bhavisatta Kahā, p. 59,\* Upamitibhavaprapañcā-Kathā Ed., Preface, p. x) thinks that the work can have originated "in the 2nd or 3rd century A.D. at the earliest." In this case we should have to assume that, in Vimala's days, a later date was assumed as the date of Mahāvīra's death, than that now usually assumed, *i.e.*, 527 B.C. *Leumann* regards the date 4 A.D. to be incontestable, as he tells me in a letter. See above I, 513 f.