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... SEVEN - STORIED GREAT BRAZEN PALACE AT ANURADHAPURA . From Cave's " Ruined Cities of Ceylon . " 75 THE SPLIT ROCK . GAMBLING SCENE FROM THE BHARAHAT TOPE. THE GREAT BUDDHIST TOPE AT SANCHI BEFORE FIG . I - KING PASENADI IN HIS CHARIOT . xi.
... SEVEN - STORIED GREAT BRAZEN PALACE AT ANURADHAPURA . From Cave's " Ruined Cities of Ceylon . " 75 THE SPLIT ROCK . GAMBLING SCENE FROM THE BHARAHAT TOPE. THE GREAT BUDDHIST TOPE AT SANCHI BEFORE FIG . I - KING PASENADI IN HIS CHARIOT . xi.
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... ; and so on . Compare the passages quoted in Rh . D. , Ancient Coins and Measures of Ceylon , p . 16 . 27. R. A. S. 1897 , 618 , and 1898 , 588 . 2 of these discoveries are those of Kapilavastu , the chief. 17 THE CLANS AND NATIONS.
... ; and so on . Compare the passages quoted in Rh . D. , Ancient Coins and Measures of Ceylon , p . 16 . 27. R. A. S. 1897 , 618 , and 1898 , 588 . 2 of these discoveries are those of Kapilavastu , the chief. 17 THE CLANS AND NATIONS.
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... Ceylon ignored in it , but there is also no mention of Orissa , of Bengal east of the Ganges , or even of the Dekkan . The horizon of those who drew up the list is strictly bounded on the north by the Himalayas , and on the south ( ex ...
... Ceylon ignored in it , but there is also no mention of Orissa , of Bengal east of the Ganges , or even of the Dekkan . The horizon of those who drew up the list is strictly bounded on the north by the Himalayas , and on the south ( ex ...
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... Ceylon , which play so great a part in the story of the Rāmāyaṇa . 8 These geographical considerations are of very considerable importance for the history of later 1 M. 3. 69 ; S. 1. 92 ; Ud . 5. 3 ; Jāt . 3. 299 . ? See Mr. Fleet's ...
... Ceylon , which play so great a part in the story of the Rāmāyaṇa . 8 These geographical considerations are of very considerable importance for the history of later 1 M. 3. 69 ; S. 1. 92 ; Ud . 5. 3 ; Jāt . 3. 299 . ? See Mr. Fleet's ...
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... Ceylon . That cannot have taken place in any considerable degree before the period in which the Nikayas were composed . We know it had become a well - estab- lished fact at the time of Asoka . It must have happened , therefore , between ...
... Ceylon . That cannot have taken place in any considerable degree before the period in which the Nikayas were composed . We know it had become a well - estab- lished fact at the time of Asoka . It must have happened , therefore , between ...
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