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 " 58 Systems of Sanskrit Grammar § 42-] have had a direct access to the Chandra vyakaraṇa, seeing that Mss. of the work have been extremely rare, none of the various' Searches for Sanskrit manuscripts' instituted by Government having been able to bring to light any works of the school except a fragment brought by Dr. Bühler from Kasmir in 1875, and a complete copy of the Chandra vyakarana written in the Nepalese year 476 (i. c. 1356 A. D.) brought by Haraprasada Shastri from Nepal. However, by the labours of Dr. Bruno Liebich, the whole system has now been recovered in the original or Tibetan translation. The same scholar has also pub- lished the Chandra vyakarana (Leipzig 1902). The ac- count of the system given below is mostly based on his writings. 43. The date of Chandragomin.-Chandra, or more accu- rately, Chandragomin must have lived at least some time before the authors of the Käsikä, which has borrowed, always without acknowledgment, such sutras of Chandra as have no parallel either in Pāņini or in Katyayana. This gives us 650 A. D. as the lower limit for Chandra- gomin. The upper limit is supplied by a vritti on the Chandra sūtras, most probably the work of Chandragomin himself, which gives the sentence (? Ms. at or as an illustration of the use of the imperfect to express an event which occurred within the life- time of the speaker. This victory over the Hūņas can refer either to their temporary defeat by Skandagupta soon after 465 A.D., or (less likely) to their final expul- sion by Yasodharma³ in 544 A. D. This gives us 470 as the approximate date for Chandragomin. This result is further confirmed by the fact that Vasurata the preceptor 1 See Nachrichten der Goettinger Gesellschaft 1895, pp. 272-321. 2 See Dr. Liebich's paper "Das 3 Who, however, was not a Gupta... Datum Chandragomin's und Kalidasa's", p. 3.