Manual of Indian Buddhism c7.s8.26

c7.s8.26

The school of the Vaibhāṣikas was illustrated by the Bhadantas⁴ Dharmatrāta, Ghoṣaka, Buddhadeva, and Vasumitra. The first is said to have been the pupil of Ārya-Deva; if this be true, he must have flourished in the first half of the third cent. To him is ascribed the Mahā-Vibhāṣā. He is also the reputed compiler of the Udānavarga, and the author of the Saṃyuktābhidharma-śāstra⁵. Of Ghoṣaka and Buddhadeva little is known⁶. Vasumitra, flourishing in the reign of the son of Kaniṣka, is expressly distinguished from the older Vasumitra, the president of the Third Council, as well as from a younger namesake living in the 6th or 7th century, a disciple of Guṇamati⁷. As pupils of Ārya-Deva are recorded Śūra and Śāntideva. If the notice refers to the two poets whose works are known, they must have lived in the third century. Their comparatively correct Sanskrit renders this very problematical.