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INTRODUCTION
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Sarkarānanda
( 800 A.c.) Banku Pandit
( 1150 A.C.) (10) Sākyaśrībhadra
(1127-1225) The dates which have been assigned above are on an average of 25 years for each successor. There is a gap of 300 years between Sarkarānanda and Sākyaśrībhadra which cannot be filled up.
. Apart from these scholars, there are some others who have richly contributed to Buddhist logic and their works have been preserved in Tibetan translations. I do not agree with some of the dates of Vidyābhūşaņa.
My dates Vidyābhūṣaṇa's dates (1) Chandragomin 575 A.C.
925 A.C. (2) Kalyāṇarakṣita
700, (3) Jinamitra
850 » (4) Muktākalasa
1000, (s) Aśoka
1075 » Mokşākaragupta 1200 ,
1000, (7) Dānaśīla
1203,
1025 , Chandragomin's work Nyāyasiddhyālokas was translated into Tibetan about 830 A.C. So his date cannot be later than this and there is no need of creating a second Chandragomin, other than the great grammarian Chandragomin who was a contemporary of Chandrakirti, the predecessor of Dharmapāla ( 600 A.C.).
Kalyāṇarakṣita was the teacher of Dharmottara ( 728 A.c.) according to the historian Bu-ston.19 So his date cannot be so late as 829 A.C.
Jīnamitra's20 work Nyāyabindupiņņārtha was trans
829 ) 1025 23 900 »
900 »
18 Appendix E. 3. 19 History of Buddhism. II. P. 154.
20 As one of my note-books contains the information about the authority for the dates of these scholars is missing, I am unable at present to state the proper reasons.
