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centre of the time, where he spent most of his glorious career. In the last phase of his life, our author went to Magadha and died at Rajgpha at the ripe age of seventy-five.
Works : The Tibetan tradition ascribes the following works to Maitreyanātha which were revealed to Arya Asanga and consequently he commented upon them:
(i) Mahāyānasūtrālamkāraśāstra, (ii) Madhyāntavibhāgaśāstra, (iii) Dharmadharmatāvibhanga. (iv) Uttaratantra and
(v) Abhisamayālamkārakārikā. One Vajracchedikā Prajñāpāramitā śāstra is also said to have been com
1. Watters, 1.355 sq.; Beal. 1.222 sq.; Kern, Manual of Indian
Buddhism, p. 129, f.n. 1; Rev. Mahāpandita Rāhula Sāṁkstyāyana states that a tradition informs that Asanga spent his last days in Gāndhāra-region (Ibid, loc. cit.). However, Yüan Chwang states that both Asanga and Vasubandhu died near or at Ayodhyā
(loc. cit.). 2. Vide, Kern, Ibid., p. 129, fn. 1. 3. Bù-ston, ibid., II.53; Bu-ston's translator Obermiller thinks that
these works are by Asanga, Doctrine of Prajñāpāramitā, pp. 90, 99-100; Murti follows him, CPB, p. 257, f.n.2, 269, and also following Benoytosh Bhattacharya, regards Asanga the author of MSA, Madhyāntavibhāga, AA, Uttaratantra and Guhyasamāja, ibid., loc. cit., also pp. 108-9. But now this view has been corrected by further researches, vide, HIL, II.355; Vidhushekhara Bhattacharya, YBS, I, Intro., p. 9; A.K, Chatterjee, The Yogācāra Idealism, pp. 46-7,
