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KALPA SÚTRA.
currency of the tenth hundred, this book was written, and was publicly read in the currency of the ninety-third year*.
* It is added in the Gujarathi, at the time of a famine in the city of Mathura. The era is that of Mahávíra, preceding the Samvat of Vikrama, according to the Jains of Gujarath, by 470 years, consequently for the time before the Christian era by adding 56, we get 526, and for the date of the book A.D. 454, and the public reading A.D. 466. The era given as that of Mahávíra in Prinsep's Useful Tables, Indian Chronology, p. 33, is 42 years earlier, corresponding to the time here given for Mahávíra's becoming an ascetic. See Preface, where reasons are given for preferring Mr. Prinsep's date. The date here given is one founded on the mistake of the abandonment of the world for death.
