The State in Ancient India: A Study in the Structure and Practical Working of Political Institutions in North India in Ancient Times c16.s1.100

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² Bāṇa, in the Preface to his Harṣacarita, refers to Subandhu’s work. Gray (Introduction to his translation) places him in the sixth or seventh century A.D. See also Keith, J. R. A. S., 1914, pp. 1102 et seq., and Classical Sanskrit Literature, p. 77. K. B. Pathak, Ind. Ant., XL, p. 170, holds that Subandhu was a contemporary of the Guptas—Kumāragupta, Skandagupta and Bālāditya. D. R. Bhandarkar (Ind. Ant., XLI, pp. 1-2) holds Vasubandhu to be the correct reading of the author’s name. Vāsavadattā is an ākhyāyikā which, as defined in the Sāhityadarpaṇa, should have verse in some places and prose in others. It has come down in two recensions, the Northern and the Southern. Śivarāma Tripāṭhī’s Kaṇcanadarpaṇa commentary on Vāsavadattā belongs to the eighteenth century (Louis H. Gray, J. A. O. S., XXIII, p. 57).