V .; (0 'The passage—^^^^TWr I , . ,• 3f\F5f'—shows that Patanjali lived about the time ,...<. . when a Yavana besieged Saketa and Madhyamika. Perhaps the invasion of Oudh by Menander of B. C» . I4P'is alluded to.
I,. :{ii) The.passagef^J^jW^f ^^R: shows that he-lived* during the reign of Pushpamitra. Two other-passages in which the name of that monarch is -:)?,;(.;.- 'mentioned corroborate this view. ; : (in) The mention of the Mauryas and Chandragupta as-';;•> ; having flourished before Patanjail's time is consis? -
'•''••• -.... tent ;with the above references. Patanjali must -- ' • ,t . have lived at a time sufficiently close to the Mauryas • in order that they might become the subject of his-•thought*.
(iv) The Rajatarangini says that the Mahabhashya was--introduced into Kashmir by a grammarian. Chandra-charya during the reign of Abhimanyu about' A. D. ,. , 40. Patanjali might haye composed his work two
centuries earlier.
(v) Hipuen Thsang says that Katyayana lived 300 years • . Lj , •, after Buddha's death, i.e., about 240 B, C. If Katyayana lived about the 3rd century, Patanjali ;., - might-have, fl-purished a century later.,
Bhartrihari of the 7th century &• D. speaks of Patanjali as-a Tirthadarsin, i.e^ I" the,seer of tji^ saving truth," and his wor.k as an anhagrantha. A book can-become ars-ka, only •when its rieul origin, is entirely forgotten. For this state of things a space of nearly ten centuries is not inconsistent witlv the reverent manner in,which he speaks of Patanjali's work.
i ftf the sixteenth century*. He also composed the Chandrakalapa^ to which he refers his readers for detail.