cotpattir

Updated: June 9, 2025

But if he died about 600 A.D. a work quoted by him can hardly have been later than 550 and may be much earlier. Especially remarkable are II. 32 na nirodho na cotpattir, etc., and IV. 59 and the whole argument that causation is impossible. Tradition, as mentioned above, connects the rise of the Mahayana with the reign of Kanishka.

Sir Charles Eliot - Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2