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Lord Jalarira aus. His Times,
Järeira to be 467 B.C. on the assumption that the Buddha's death occurred definitely in 477 B.C. A.L. BASHAN and A.F.R. HOERYLE accepted 483 B.C. as the date of the Buddha's Vircāra, and then attempted to fix the dates of Gośāla and Jahavira. H.C. RAYCHAUDHURI, B.C. LAN, H.C. SETH. and Y. JISHRA first presupposed 486-4ST B.C. as the date of Buddha's death, and then attempted to fix Jahāvira's death. K.P. JATUSISAL, by accepting the Buddha's death in 54 B.C., fixed Asahāvīra's
lïrranc in 545 B.C. The proper approach to the problem is that one should seitle the date of the Buddha's arcana br accepting that of Vahāvīra in 527 B.C. is it is not controversial.
H. JACOBI, J. CHARPENTIER, A.L. BASH:X. H.C. SETH and K.P. JAFASIYAL wrongly think that the Buddha predeceas. ed Jfahāvīra. From the study of the earlı- Buddhist texts, it is clear that sahāvīra was the senior contemporary of the Buddha ; that he attained hecalajñara earlier and that he predeceased the Buddha by 5, or 6, 7 or 8, eren 14 or 15 years. These Buddhist texts record the death of Maharira or Siganta Nätaputta as taking place at Pârā during the Buddha's life time and as being accompanied by serious confusion and quarrelling among his supporters.
The view held by some scholars that there are irregularities in the list of kings and dynasties ruling from the period of the Jörräna of Mahavira to 57 B.C. or 78 A.D. is not wholly correct. On the other hand, many scholars also believe that the Jaina traditions have definite historical background. In spite of minor discrepancies in dates, the general account giren in them is fully in keeping with the known facts of history." Here the question does not relate to the rerification of individual dynasty and king but to the determination of the general correctness of the date of Vahāvīra's.lïrcäna giren in the Jaina traditions.
All the Jaina traditions assign forty years of reign to Naharāna before Vikrama. H.C. SETH thinks ihat this Nahavāņa or Nahapāna, the Mahakshatrapa of Kshaharata
1. R.C. MLAJTHIDAR, The Age of Inferic! Urit, pp. 155-156.
