Materials for the Study of the Early History of the Vaishnava Sect c8.110

c8.110

Kātyāyana's date, fourth century B.C., may now be relied upon. This date does not solely depend on 'the ghost story' of the *Kathā-saritsāgara*³ but follows from the ascertained date of Patañjali.¹ The interval of two centuries between Kātyāyana and Patañjali will not appear too long when we remember that the grammarians of the schools of the Bhāradvājīyas and Saunāgas, Kuṇararāḍara, Saurya Bhāgavat and Kuṇi lived before Patañjali and after Kātyāyana since all their Vārttikas or remarks, recorded by Patañjali, are criticisms on, and emendations of, the Vārttikas of Kātyāyana.²