Shravak Bhoomi

SR No.: 002436
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Karunesha Shukla
Publisher: Kashi Prasad Jayaswal Research Institute
Total Pages: 618
Language: Hindi, Sanskrit
Classification: Book_Devnagari
File Size: 10 MB

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INTRODUCTION
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appointed Vasubandh the tutor of his son and crownprince Bālāditya? Yuan Chwang also connects Vasubandhu with Vikramāditya’. These assertions are further corroborated by literary evidence also. Vāmana refers to the relation of the son of King Candragupta with that of Vasubandhu3.
Several theories have been propouned with regard to the identification of King Candragupta and Bālāditya4. It has also been suggested that the two Vasu1. Vide, Early History of India“, p. 347; Fraüwallner, ibid., pp. · 24-5 sq 2. Watters, 1.210-11. 3. Kāvyālaṁkārasūtravștti, p. 86 (Vānīvilāsa Press) साभिप्रायत्वं यथा
सोऽयं सम्प्रति चन्द्रगुप्ततनयश्चन्द्रप्रकाशो युवा
जातो भूपतिराश्रयः कृतधियां दिष्ट्या कृतार्थश्रमः । आश्रयः कृतधियामित्यस्य वसुबन्धुसाचिव्योपक्षेपपरत्वात् साभिप्रायत्वम् ।। The reading “subandhu' is also met with. MM. Hara Prasad Shastri and Narasimhācārya prefer to accept the reading 'Subandhu'. Other scholars (Fraüwallner, p. 27; Smith, E.H.I.“, p. 347, Goyal, p. 215; Rāhulajī, RAK, Into., p. 14; Chakrabarti, p. 146)
accept the reading Vasubandhu. 4. Smith, loc. cit., identifies Samudragupta with Bălăditya and
Candragupta I with Vikramāditya; Wogihara, Takakusu, Pathak and Fraüwallner identify Skandagupta with Vikrāmāditya and Narasimhagupta with Bālāditya; Allan and B. P. Sinha (Decline of the kindom of Magadha, p. 81) identify them with Purugupta and Narasimhagupta Bālāditya, H.P. Shastri identifies them with Candragupta II and Kumāragupta I, while D. R. Bhandārkar (I.A., 1911, p. 15) and Salatore (Life in the Gupta Age, p. 28) identify them with Candragupta II and Govindagupta, vide, Goyal, pp. 215-6; Rāhulaji indentifies them with Candragupta I and Samudragupta, RAK, Intro., p. 14.