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343 Dates assigned to Vātsya's revised version of the Kāśyapasamhitā are: the period before Buddha's birth (R. Śāstrī, 1977: 468), sixth or seventh century B.C. (V.N. Pandey and A. Pandey, 1988: 11 and 14), first to fourth centuries A.D. (B.B. Mishra, 1969: 97), third century (ABI 208), A.D. 300–400 (U.P. Shah, 1952/53: 34–35, and 1958: 276 and 299), the Gupta period (ABI 206–207 and 491; Jaggi IV, 20), and the later Gupta or post-Gupta period (AVI 149–150 and P.V. Sharma, 1992h: 227: sixth or seventh century; P.V. Tewari, Intr., XXXIII, to ed. d and 1997: 158: post-Gupta period, almost contemporary with the Mādhavanidāna).