Vikrama's Court. He was a Jain by religion and must have flourished about the first century of the Christian ^era. Prof. Weber assigns a far later date. "For in the first place, it enumerates the signs of the zodiac, which were unquestionably borrowed by the Hindus from the Greeks; and, according to Letronne's investigations, the completion of the zodiac did not take place among the Greeks themselves before the first century A. D.; so that, of course, it cannot have become known to the Hindus till one or several centuries later. Again, in the Amarakosa, the lunar mansions are enumerated in their new order, the fixing of which was due to the fresh life infused into Indian astronomy under Greek influence, the exact date being uncertain, but*hardly earlier than A. D. 400. Lastly, the word Dinava occurs here, which as pointed out by Prinsep, is simply the Latin Denarius. The use of the term Tantra in the sense of ' text-book ! may perhaps also be cited in this connection, as it belongs only to a definite period, which is probably the fifth or sixth century^ the Hindus who emigrated to Java having taken the word with them in this sense. All this^ of course, yields us no direct date." The existence of a Chinese translation dated the second century A. D. has of late been discovered and so this work could not have been composed later than the first century of the Christian era.
2. The Abhidhana-ratnamala was ccfrnposed on the plan of the Amarakosa by Halayudha about the beginning of the ninth century A. D. under the patronage of the Rashtrakuta king Krishna.
3. The Trikanda-sesha was the work of Purushottama about the eleventh century A. D. under King Dhritisimha,s work.