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king [Parakramabahu] several parts of the scripture were translated by the high priests Buddagosa-charinvamse," &c.) since its inaccuracy is sufficiently explained by the parallel passage in the Rajaratnákari,121 ("Now all the books which had been written from the time of the king called Maha-nawenia [Mahânâma] Rajah by the learned priest called Boodagosawchawree Nahansey till the reign of the last king, and which had been expounded and enlarged upon by his successors," &c.) Another eccentric date is also capable of some explanation, namely A.D. 107,123 which has been derived from the following passage of Ward's Hindoos:123"The Burmans believe that 650 years after that event [Boodhu's death according to Hardy] in the reign of Muhamoonee, Booddhughoshu, a Brahmin, was deputed to Ceylon," because the "event" referred to in Ward's book is more correctly the propagation of Buddhism in Burma "about 450 years after Boodhu's death," or about 93 B.C.: but even this partial correction gives a new eccentric date, namely A.D. 557, which awaits some further explanation. There still remains one more date outside of the range of the period usually assigned to him, namely. An. Bud. 236, or B.C. 307;124 but this date has perhaps been sufficiently disposed of in my foregoing remarks upon the Siamese tradition in which it occurs.135 With these exceptions, and two or three more which scarcely need to be mentioned here, the remaining dates assigned to him group themselves in the main around the reign of king Mahânâma of Ceylon, and depend upon the date of that reign. I will here append these dates in their chronological order, with the authorities on which they are given, but without attempting to explain or to reconcile them :
B.C. 543. (Cal. Rev. Vol. IV. p. 276).
(Crawf. Siam, Vol. II. p. 91).
307. A.D. 107.
(Hardy, Man. Bud., 512: but see Ward's Hindoos, Vol. II. p. 210). 1st or 2nd. cent.,
the time of the Andhra kings,(Jour. As. Soc. Bomb. Vol. V. p. 5, with Rep. Archeol. Surv. West. India).
An early century (Ind. Ant. Vol. VI. pp. 229, 321).
386 A.B. 930.- (Crawf., Siam, Vol. II. pp. 10, 11; Ava, Vol. II. 123, 278, app.
(Upham, Vol. III. p. 115:
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p. 59: see also Jour. As. Soc. Beng. Vol. XXXVII. p. 81).
387 A.B. 930 the 6th year of king Mahânâma.
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Mason's Páli Gram., p. v.).
388 to 413. (Phayre, Hist. Burma, p. 20: Burnell's Aindra Gram, p. 61).
A.B. 940. (Carpanins: Burnouf and Lassen).
THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
397
4th century. (Burnell, Aind. Gr. p. 61).
End of the 4th century. (Bigandet, p. ix.).
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Beginning of the 5th century. (Jour. As. Soc. Beng. Vol. XXVI, p. 24; XXXVII., p. 80 ff: Bigandet, p. 351, n.).
A.B. 943. (Bigandet, pp. 381n, 389n, 392).
400 403.
(Jour. As. Soc. Beng. Vol. XXXVII, p. 105; XLII. p. 28). 408.(Fergusson, Tree and Serp. Worship, p. 195).
121 Upham, Vol. II. p. 12 Vol. II. p. 211.
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410.(Tarn. Maháv. p. lxii: Jour. R. A. S. Vol. VI. p. 416: Jour. As. Soc. Bomb. Vol. V. p. 13, 177: Ferg. Tree and Serp. Wor., pp. 70, 71, 161, 172). 410A.B. 953. (Jour. As. Soc. Beng. Vol. XVII. (II.), p. 615). 410 to 432.
(Turn. Maháv., p. xxx: Jour. As. Soc. Beng. Vol. VI. pp. 338, 423 I. (N. 8.), p. 462: Max Müller in Buddhaghosha's Parables, p. v. note). 420.(E. Monach., pp. 1. 167, 171: Cunningham, Bhilsa Topes, p. 74: Sacr. Bks. of the East, Vol. X. p. xxxix.).
430.
(Max Müller's Chips, Vol. I. p. 197: Fytche, Burma, Vol. II. pp. 169, 170).
432.
(Bart. St. Hilaire, Bud. et sa Rel., p. 354).
450. (Phayre, Burma, p. 21: Rhys Davids, Buddhism, p. 231).
450 or 465 cir.
(E. Monach., pp. 183, 184).
106.
123 Hardy's Man. Bud., p. 512. 124 Crawfurd's Siam, Vol. II. p. 91. 135 Page 108 above.
