¹ The exact date of Ashvaghosha (or Acvaghosha) is uncertain. According to Suzuki, who has investigated the question with great care, Ashvaghosha * lived at the time extending from the latter half of the first century before Christ to about 50 or 80 a. d. ... At the very most, his time cannot be placed later than the first century of the Christian era’ (T. Suzuki, Thi Awakening of Faith, Chicago, 1900, p. 17).