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with Sandrokoptus, the ally of Seleukus Nikator, and the date of his accession fixed ir. B. C. 316. Thus there is a difference of exactly 66 years between the two dates and which could be removed by applying the correction of the same period to Nirvana itself, as the “succession of Buddhist teachers fiiom the death of Buddha to the time of Asoka is natural and unbroken.” Cunningham also shows that there would be a mistake of about 66 years in the real date of the accession of Asoka, Chandra Gupta's grandson, and the date given by the Pâli texts, which started by putting Chandra Gupta's accession in 120 A, B. i. e. 382 B. c. Asoka's dates can be fixed in two ways; the first is to start with his grandfather's date of accession (B. C. 316 ) and to calculate his from that, the second way is to determine it from the dates of the five Greek princes, mentioned by him in one of his pillar edicts as his contemporaries. The date so fixed for his accession is 264 B, C., and for his inauguration which
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