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Nāgasena (Klu’i sde)

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• Blue Annals, p. 28.
• Davidson, IEB, p. 23 (Nāgasena of Gandhāra).
• Tucci, TPS, p. 570 (Arhat).
• Nakamura, pp. 74, 97, 114. In the famous dialogue with King Menander. See under Milindapañha.
• Mookerji, Ancient, p. 473 ff.
• Rerikh.
• Van der Kuijp in Journal of the American Oriental Society, vol. 114, no. 1 (1994), p. 125.
• Strong, RB, p. 151.
• Ray, SBB, p. 7. In 484 CE, Jayavarman, king of Fou-nan, sent an Indian monk Śākya Nāgasena to present a memorial to the Chinese emperor.
• EoB, vol. 7, p. 102.
• A name that occurs in an Andhran inscription. DeCaroli, Haunting, p. 144.
• A Nāgasenabhikṣu Sūtra, which includes the figure of Menander, exists in Chinese. A Chinese text with English translation by Ven. Guang Xing has been placed on the internet in PDF format at www.woodenfish.org in 2008. Taishô no. 1670B.
• Originally he was a Brahmin named Souttara. A brief survey of what is known of his life is found in Chowdhury, King, pp. 68-69.

• Source: Tibskrit Philology