Note 992 — Chapter XIII · MANES AND THE MANICHAEANS
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Al-Bîrûnî, Chronology of Ancient Nations, p. 190. The date he gives is twelve years before the accession of Ardeshîr. E. Rochat, Essai sur Mani et sa Doctrine, Genève, 1897, p. 81, examines all the different accounts and makes the date from 214 to 218 A.D.