Buddhist IndiaG. P. Putnam's Sons, 1903 - 332 pages |
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... learned scholar summarises it thus : " Udena eloped with her on an elephant , leaving behind him a bag full of gold in order to prevent a prosecution " ' we see how easily a very slight change in expression may , in retelling , have ...
... learned scholar summarises it thus : " Udena eloped with her on an elephant , leaving behind him a bag full of gold in order to prevent a prosecution " ' we see how easily a very slight change in expression may , in retelling , have ...
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... learned and colloquial dialects . Nearly a thousand years afterwards the thus adapted alphabet became known as the Brahmi Lipī , the Sublime Writing . What name it bore in the interval - for instance , in Asoka's time is not known ...
... learned and colloquial dialects . Nearly a thousand years afterwards the thus adapted alphabet became known as the Brahmi Lipī , the Sublime Writing . What name it bore in the interval - for instance , in Asoka's time is not known ...
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... learned and more proper forms of words , and of grammatical inflexions , rather than to the forms actually in use in the real , living language . The alphabet tends , therefore , to be much less ac- curate , to give a less faithful ...
... learned and more proper forms of words , and of grammatical inflexions , rather than to the forms actually in use in the real , living language . The alphabet tends , therefore , to be much less ac- curate , to give a less faithful ...
Page 134
... learned , and proper , and on the safe side ) , spelt could also with an 7 , though the existed , in this case , neither in the older form of the word nor in the living speech . And now we are saddled with the in both words whether we ...
... learned , and proper , and on the safe side ) , spelt could also with an 7 , though the existed , in this case , neither in the older form of the word nor in the living speech . And now we are saddled with the in both words whether we ...
Page 136
... learned . But the people did not fancy the innovation of Sanskrit legends , and the authorities apparently did not care to go on issuing coins not popular with the people . So in our own country up to as late as the end of the ...
... learned . But the people did not fancy the innovation of Sanskrit legends , and the authorities apparently did not care to go on issuing coins not popular with the people . So in our own country up to as late as the end of the ...
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alphabet ancient Anguttara Aryan Asoka Avanti bas-reliefs Bharahat Tope Bharhut birth brahmins Buddha Buddhaghosa Buddhist called canonical books capital Ceylon Chandragupta Chronicles clan coins commentary Cunningham's custom deer Dhamma dialect Dialogues Digha doubt Edict epic evidence existing fact Ganges GATE OF SANCHI gods Greek ideas important India inscriptions instance Jain Jāt Jātaka JETAVANA King kingdom Kosala Kosambi Kshatriya language later legends Licchavis literary literature Magadha Megasthenes mentioned Nāgas Nikayas older oldest Order Pāli Pasenadi passages period poem preserved priestly books priests probably Professor prose Rājagaha records referred religion rise of Buddhism Royal Asiatic Society sacrifice Sakiya Samyutta SANCHI SANCHI TOPE Sanskrit Savatthi social sort soul story Stupa supposed Sutta Nipata Suttanta Suttas third century B.C. tion tradition tree tribes Udena Ujjeni Veda Vedic vernacular verses Vesāli village Vinaya Vinaya Texts Wanderers word written
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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.