Again Dr. Bhau Daji has fixed the first half of the sixth century A. D. and this date is acquisced in by many of the cdUbnted antiquarians of the present day. The ratio bearing. J
on this conclusion may be arranged as follows :-— 1
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(I) KaHdasa has beefc known to be one of the gems of \
Vikrama's Court*: Of these Varahamihira died in? A. D, 387, as appears from a commentary on Brahma Gupta. Colebrllke had already assigned to him the close of the fifth century of the Christian era from a calculation of the position of the stars affirmed as I
actual in his time by Varahamihira.
(ii) AHne in the Meghaduta fs^FTRT *••!•. 14, affords another datum for fixing the date. The suggested* sense according to Mallinatha refers to a pointed. 1
allusion to the poets Dingnaga, and Nichula, coo- ^
temporaries of Kalidasa. Of these the former is a 1
celebrated name in the Pramana Sastra or Logic* From the life of Bhagavat Buddha by Ratnadharma -raja, we learn that Dingnaga was the pupil of the Buddhist Arya Asanga in Nyaya 900 years after the death of Buddha and this Asanga was the elder-brother and teacher of Vasubandhu. Hiouen Thsang-tells us that the latter was the contemporary of" Vikrama of Sravasti. According to Fergusson, the reign of Siladitya Pratapasila ends in 580 A. D. He ruled, as Ferista says, fifty years and was preceded by Vikrama whose reign must therefore have ended. •^ •„ ; in 530 A.D. .--.••• •. . -. '.. _ . .
Gi9--Biwdes Kalidasa --musit have lived after Aryabhata.' |^ ^ 499) because he displays a knowledge of scientific astronomy borrowed from the Greeks.cter, whose approach is unannounced, J£ considered to be.