A History of Indian Literature v2.c20.s3.16
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³ *Bhandarkar*, Early History of the Dekkan, second Ed., p. 59, places him about 678 A.D., B. *Lewis Rice* in JRAS 1890, 245 ff., about the middle of the 5th century A.D. A Digambara Paṭṭāvalī gives 251 A.D. as his date. See *Hoernle* in Ind. Ant. 20, 1891, 351; *Klatt*, Specimen of Jaina Onomasticon, p. 45 f., and *Jacobi* in ZDMG 60, 290. That he lived before Samantabhadra is shown by K. B. *Pathak* in Ann. Bh. Inst. 11, 1930, pp. 53 f., 153.