A Bengali layman, his name appears as scribe in a manuscript colophon which might yield the date 1268 CE. Michael Hahn, Gopadatta' Jātakamālā: On the First Complete Edition of Its 16 Extant Legends, Journal of Indian and Buddhist Studies, vol. 55, no. 3 (March 2007), pp. 1043-1051, at p. 1051.
