Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1913 — The Date of Buddha. [ARTICLE]

The Date of Buddha.

On the authority of the available Inscriptions and of the tradition as recorded in the Ceylonese ohronldea the date of the Nirvana of Buddha Is found by the latest writer on the subject to he 487 B. C.; and as tradition assigns 80 years as the .period of his life, he must be considered to have been born In the year 867 B. 0.