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 Decestbeh, 1875.] TARANATHAS MAGADHA KINGS. Sautrantists we I formed. It mis at this time that the so-called first canonical books of this school appeared, such as the Rosary of Ex- amples and tli / Ufatmipl who holds the Bmkef. If these books are not among the collections with -which we are qnaiuted under other names, then they are generally unknown to us. The strange thing is that the two persons of whom we have just spoken met in Knsmir. Taranatba (chap, xii.) says distinctly that 'at the time of the third council all the eigh- teen schools were recognized as pure teaching ; that the Vinai/a had received a written torm, as well as the S&traa and Abhldkannas, -which, un- til then, had not existed in this shape ; and that those which had been so habilitated had been corrected." It is evident that the last circum- stance is only an apology to prevent the depre- ciation of the glory of his religion. After the death of K a a i s h k a and after the third council, merit ion is made of two fa- mous personages among the Vaibhashists — Vasumitra, of the race of Maru, and Ud- g r a n t h a ; in the Thibetan-Sansk rit dictionary this word is rendered Udgratri, but is not this G i r i s e n a. who in the Chinese chronology ia mentioned after Vasumitra! Both dwelt nt Asmaparanta, west of Eainur, and not far fromTogara. Asvagupta and his disciple Nanda- mitra dwelt at Pataliputra. At this time there appeared in Magadha the two Upasaka brothers (secular Buddhists) Mud- garagomin and Sa hkara, who Bang the praises of Buddha in hymns preserved >>•, and bid the foundation of the celeb monaster)' of NalanJa, which afterwards became the representative of Buddhism in Central India rather ihaMMfarm (was b (chap, xv.), but afterwards a w: * s the principal chosen seat of the aa. Tiiranatha brinks the thread of his nar iiug the kings of India or of Ma g adha which we have been following above. Although ho ni:mti ' Chandanapala, under whom lived Indradhrnva, the author of the Indra. and makes him king over tg under the sun, ho does not tell as distinctly whether he was the immediate succcs- fMahapadma.or whether ho was de- scended of the race of Asoka. But, judging from the order of the story;, his reign should immediately follow that of the latter. According to his account, this king reigned abont one hun- dred and twenty years, and lived one hundred and fifty. But, as in another place (chap, xv.) T.iranaiha says king tiaukara lived ahundred and fifty years, and as he again mentions Vara- mc hi under this king as his minister and the author of the Grammar, we may ooaola.de that he reigned in Southern India, and was the con- temporary of M a h a p a d m a and, after him, ofBhimasukla, who is said to have been the king of Bauaras under whom K a 1 i d as a lived,* in whose history Vararuchi figures. It must have been at this time that king S a n t i- v a h a n a ( Saliva hana), and Saptavarma, author of the grammatical work Kaltipa, lived in the west. Under king Chan da pal a there lived in the town of S a k e t a n a the Bhikshu Mah a- virya,at Bauaras the Vuibhashist eectary Buddhadeva, and in Kaimir the Sautrant- ist Srilabha who spread the doctrine of the SrAvakas. Dha rmn ira u, Udgrantha (or Girisena), Vasumitra, and Buddha- deva are reckoned the four great teachers of the Vaibhashists, aud in their school the prin- cipal canonical books are the Rosary of the Three Miscellanies and the Century of Upuddna— works both alike unknown to us. About this time a Brahman built eight hundred temples in the town of Hastinapura, and employed in them eight hundred professors of the Vinaya. After this Taranatha relates only partially the history of Magadha under the Chandra- i and Sena dynasties, the one of which ly after the other. It was in stkingHarichandra, who began the royal line of Chandrae, Appeared. Of this race there were seven kings who openly sup- ported Buddhism, and who because < known by the common designation of the seven Iras. Harich andra was succeeded by phew A ks haohandra, and came his son J ay a c h a n dra, who in his turn was succeeded by his son N e m 1 b a n d r a, Paniehandra ? Bhimachandra, end Salachandra, who, it is said, were not very capable of holding such a position. Soon after Nemachandra took possession of the throne » Conf./nJ- Ant.rol L p.S46 »toL III. pp. 34, 81.-E;..