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¹ Thus according to the researches of Muni *Jinavijayaji* (The Date of Haribhadrasūri, in Proc. I. OC, Poona, Vol. I. 1920, p. cxxiv ff.), with whom *Jacobi* (Samarāicca Kahā Ed., pp. i-iv) agrees. *Peterson* (3 Reports, p. 3 f. and Appendix II, 284) quotes a Prākrit verse, out of the Gāthāsahasrī written in 1630, according to which the famous Haribhadra is said to have died in 535 of the Vikrama era, *i.e.*, in 478 A.D. Another tradition, which can be traced till the 13th century, gives 529 A.D. as Haribhadra's date (*Klatt*, Ind. Ant. 11, pp. 247, 253). However, as writers of the 6th and 7th centuries are mentioned in works attributed to Haribhadra, those dates cannot be correct. Perhaps Mahāvīra's Nirvāṇa was reckoned differently in those days. (See above p. 424, note 1, and *Jacobi*, Upamitibhavaprapañcā-Kathā Ed., Preface, p. viii ff.) S. Ch. *Vidyābhūṣaṇa* (*History* of Indian Logic, p. 208 ff.) has certainly assumed that the younger Haribhadra, who wrote in about 1120 A D., is the author of the works Ṣaḍdarśanasamuccaya, Daśavaikālika-niryukti-ṭīkā, Nyāyapraveśaka-Sūtra and Nyāyāvatāra-vṛtti, but this is in contradic tion to the entire tradition. Muni *Jinavijayaji* has established, however, that Uddyotana in his Prākrit poem Kuvalayamālā, completed in 779 A.D., calls Haribhadra his teacher. As he quotes authors who lived in the second half of the 7th century, he must have lived in the 8th century. Śāntarakṣita (8th century A.D.) quotes in Tattvasaṃgraha an Ācārya Sūri, whom *Benoytosh Bhattacharyya* (GOS, Vol. 30, p. lxxv) identifies with Haribhadra Sūri.