Buddhist IndiaG. P. Putnam's Sons, 1903 - 332 pages |
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Page iv
... course open , and that is to declare war , always with the deepest re- spect for those who hold them , against such views . The views are wrong . They are not compatible with historical methods , and the next generation will see iv PREFACE.
... course open , and that is to declare war , always with the deepest re- spect for those who hold them , against such views . The views are wrong . They are not compatible with historical methods , and the next generation will see iv PREFACE.
Page v
... course , in the brahmin litera- ture which is all that has hitherto been available to the student . That is unfortunately true , and some of the special causes which gave rise to this state of things are pointed out below . But the ...
... course , in the brahmin litera- ture which is all that has hitherto been available to the student . That is unfortunately true , and some of the special causes which gave rise to this state of things are pointed out below . But the ...
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... course , unknown . There had been kings in the valley of the Ganges for centuries , long before Buddhism , and the time was fast ap- proaching when the whole of India would be under the sway of monarchical governments . In those parts ...
... course , unknown . There had been kings in the valley of the Ganges for centuries , long before Buddhism , and the time was fast ap- proaching when the whole of India would be under the sway of monarchical governments . In those parts ...
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... course the people settled in the district round Benares . In the time of the Buddha this famous old kingdom of the Bharatas had fallen to so low a political level that the revenues of the township had become a bone of con- tension ...
... course the people settled in the district round Benares . In the time of the Buddha this famous old kingdom of the Bharatas had fallen to so low a political level that the revenues of the township had become a bone of con- tension ...
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... course of Aryan migration lay along the valleys of the Ganges and the Jumna . It cannot have been so simple . We must postulate at least two other lines of equal importance - one down the Indus , round the Gulf of Cutch , and so up to ...
... course of Aryan migration lay along the valleys of the Ganges and the Jumna . It cannot have been so simple . We must postulate at least two other lines of equal importance - one down the Indus , round the Gulf of Cutch , and so up to ...
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Page 262 - Some superintend the rivers, measure the land, as is done in Egypt, and inspect the sluices by which water is let out from the main canals into their branches, so that every one may have an equal supply of it.
Page 263 - They escort them on the way when they leave the country, or, in the event of their dying, forward their property to their relatives. They take care of them when they are sick, and if they die bury them.