Buddhist IndiaG. P. Putnam's Sons, 1903 - 332 pages |
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... means thoroughly exploited . Scarcely anything , also , has yet been done for the excavation of the ancient historical sites . We might do well to recollect , when we read these complaints of the absence of materials , that the remedy ...
... means thoroughly exploited . Scarcely anything , also , has yet been done for the excavation of the ancient historical sites . We might do well to recollect , when we read these complaints of the absence of materials , that the remedy ...
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... mean , you wretched dwarf , to call such as I am hunchback ? " And he pulled the corner of the curtain to see , and asked her who she was , and the trick was dis- covered , and he went inside , and there was no more talk that day of ...
... mean , you wretched dwarf , to call such as I am hunchback ? " And he pulled the corner of the curtain to see , and asked her who she was , and the trick was dis- covered , and he went inside , and there was no more talk that day of ...
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... mean the whole country comprised in our modern phrase the Dekkan . But it is used , in the very passage in question ... means " the Southern Road , " a strange name to apply to any fixed locality . Already in a Vedic hymn ' though it is ...
... mean the whole country comprised in our modern phrase the Dekkan . But it is used , in the very passage in question ... means " the Southern Road , " a strange name to apply to any fixed locality . Already in a Vedic hymn ' though it is ...
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... mean " of Tagara , " the modern Ter , 76 ° 12 ' E. by 18 ° , 19 ' N. ' But the point is very doubtful , the place is not mentioned elsewhere , and I think another ex- planation of the name is more likely . Besides this extension in the ...
... mean " of Tagara , " the modern Ter , 76 ° 12 ' E. by 18 ° , 19 ' N. ' But the point is very doubtful , the place is not mentioned elsewhere , and I think another ex- planation of the name is more likely . Besides this extension in the ...
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... means devoid of credit . Its Town Hall was then no longer used as a parliament chamber for the transaction of public business . Pub- lic discussions on religious and philosophical ques- tions were carried on in it . ' Champa , on the ...
... means devoid of credit . Its Town Hall was then no longer used as a parliament chamber for the transaction of public business . Pub- lic discussions on religious and philosophical ques- tions were carried on in it . ' Champa , on the ...
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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.