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Time-Decision.
Scholars of the past century should be understood.* From this, the statement made by Muni Ji based on the time of the Mallavas, that Siddhasena Vikram was before the fifth century, does not seem correct.
No other strong evidence has yet been found to establish the time of Siddhasena before the fifth and sixth centuries AD, and if we accept the sixth or fifth century, we have no hesitation in saying that Samantabhadra was much before Siddhasena Divakara, as the readers will know later. _ It seems appropriate to reveal here that Siddhasena has been written as a scholar of the Svetambara sect by Vidyabhusanji. In our opinion, your writing is only a mention of the belief of one sect, and indicates ignorance of the belief of the other sect; it cannot be given any more importance. Otherwise, when Siddha
- * See the said history (History of the Mediaeval School of Indian Logic) pages 35, 131.
1 When a Shaka Samvat 427 (AD 505) is mentioned in a work of Varahamihira, it is natural that he would have been alive for about 20-25 years before its composition, and therefore his existence seems to be in the fourth quarter of the fifth century AD. Apart from this, it is also possible that the beginning of Varahamihira's youth is the time of Kshapanaka's old age, therefore, the fifth century has also been accepted here for the existence of Siddhasena.