Literary History of Sanskrit Buddhism

Nāgārjuna – 121
For other authorities, consult Raj. Mitra Nepalese Buddhist
Literature, p. 3 ff.; Bendall Catalogue p. 25 ff.; Burnouf,
Introduction, p. 502 ff.; Sylvain Lévi, Encyclopaedia of Religion and
Ethics 1, p. 20, and La Vallée-Poussin in Encyclopaedia of Religion
and Ethics, IV, p. 129 ff.
A treatise on the doctrine of the Vijñānarvādis in twenty memorial
verses with a commentary called Viṁśakakārikā Prakaraṇa is
translated from the Tibetan by La Vallée-Poussin (Museon, 1912, p.
53 ff.) Takakusu, T’oung Pao, 1904, p. 27.
Candragomi
To the School of Asaṅga belongs Candragomi who as a grammarian,
philosopher and poet, enjoyed high renown in the Buddhist literary
world. He was a contemporary of Candrakīrti whose doctrine he
assailed and was alive at the time of I-tsing’s visit to India in 673.
According to Tāranātha who has got a considerable deal of
legendary nature to report about him, he composed innumerable
hymns and learned works. Of the literary productions we own only a
religious poem in the form of an epistle to his disciple, the Śiṣya
Lekha Dharma Kāvya. In this the Buddhist doctrine is propounded in
the elegant style of Kāvya.
Minayeff, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1899, p. 1133 ft.,
assigns him the close of the fourth and beginning of the fifth
century. B. Liebich, Wiener Zeitschrift fur die Kunde des
Morgenlandes 13, 1899, 308 ff places him between 465 and 544. But
for Sylvain Lévi’s views, Bullétin de l'Ecole française d'Extrême
Orient, 1903, p. 38 ff. see above.