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eleventh century, is shown by the life of Sāntarakṣita and Dipankara-śrījñana. Vasubandhu being a Sarvāstivādin of great note, would it not be very strange that he was not connected with Nālandā, if it existed at the time? Fa-hien also does not mention Nālandā, which shows, that Nālandā did not come to prominence before 410 A.C. Vasubandhu had no connection with it, because he passed away before the establishment of the University. (s) A Chinese record says that Kumārajiva (383-412 A.C.) wrote a life of Vasubandhu, which is only possible if Vasubandhu belonged to the fourth century A.C.
_Thus 625 A.C. should be the latest date for Dharmakirti which is not much earlier than when HiuenTsang entered India.
Dharmakirti was followed by a host of Buddhist logicians. In Tibetan”? we have a list of successors from Dharmakīrti (625 A.c.) to Sākyaśrībhadra (11271225 A.c.), the last chief abbot of the Vikramasila University in Bihar. After the destruction of the great monastic University by the Turks, he reached Tibet in 1206 A.C. He was accompanied by several Buddhist scholars.
The list is :(1) Dharmakīrti
(625 A.C.) (2) Devendramati
(650 A.C.) (3) Sākyamati
(675 A.C.) (4) Prajñākaragupta
( 700 A.C.) (s) Dharmottara
( 725 A.C.) (6) Yamāri
( 750 A.C.) (7) Vinītadeva
( 775 A.C.) 17 See appendix A. ft.-notes.
