299. It is
noticeable that the translator Paramartha shows a special interest in
the life and works of Asanga and Vasubandhu.]

[Footnote 208: See Winternitz, _Ges. Ind. Lit._ II. i. p. 211. It is
also noticeable that _The Awakening of Faith_ appears to quote the
Lankavatara sutra which is not generally regarded as an early
Mahayanist work.]

[Footnote 209: Nagarjuna cannot have been the founder of the Mahayana
for in his Maha-prajna-paramita-sastra (Nanjio, 1169, translation by
Kumarajiva) he cites _inter alia_ the Lotus, the Vimalakirti-sutra,
and a work called Mahayana-sastra. See _B.E.F.E.O._ 1911, p. 453. For
Nagarjuna see especially Gruenwedel, _Mythologie_, pp. 29 ff. and the
bibliography given in the notes. _Jour. Budd. Text. Soc._ V. part iv.
pp. 7 ff. Watters, _Yuean Chwang_, pp. 200 ff. Taranatha, chap. XV and
Winternitz, _Ges. Ind. Lit._ II. i. pp. 250 ff.]

[Footnote 210: He is omitted from the list of Buddhabhadra, giving the
succession according to the Sarvastivadins, to which school he did not
belong. I-Ching classes him with Asvaghosha and Aryadeva as belonging
to the early period.]

[Footnote 211: Rajatarangini, i. 173, 177.]

[Footnote 212: Edited in the _Bibliotheca Buddhica_ by De la Vallee
Poussin and (in part) in the _Journal of the Buddhist Text Soc._ See
too Walleser, _Die Mittlere Lehre des Nagarjuna nach der Tibetischen
Version uebertragen_, 1911: _nach der Chinesischen Version uebertragen_,
1912.]

[Footnote 213: The ascription of these works to Nagarjuna is probably
correct for they were translated by Kumarajiva who was sufficiently
near him in date to be in touch with good tradition.]

[Footnote 214: The name of this king, variously given as Udayana,
Jetaka and Satavahana, has not been identified with certainty from the
various transcriptions and translations in the Chinese and Tibetan
versions. See _J. Pali Text Soc._ for 1886 and I-Ching _Records of the
Buddhist Religion_ (trans. Takakusu), pp. 158 ff. The Andhra kings who
reigned from about 240 B.C. to 225 A.D. all claimed to belong to the
Satavahana dynasty. The stupa of Amaravati in the Andhra territory is
surrounded by a stone railing ascribed to the period 160-200 A.D. and
Nagarjuna may have addressed a pious king living about that time.]

[Footnote 215: For other works attributed to Nagarjuna see Nanjio,
Nos. 1169, 1179, 1180, 1186 and Walleser's introduction to _Mittlere
Lehre nach der Chinesischen Version_ The Dharmasang