Buddhist IndiaG. P. Putnam's Sons, 1903 - 332 pages |
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Page 43
... opinion of the ancient Greeks about barbarians , and of the modern Chinese about foreigners . But the reasons given are vague , and will scarcely bear examination . I recollect hear- ing Professor Bühler at the Oriental Congress in ...
... opinion of the ancient Greeks about barbarians , and of the modern Chinese about foreigners . But the reasons given are vague , and will scarcely bear examination . I recollect hear- ing Professor Bühler at the Oriental Congress in ...
Page 82
... opinions these thinkers put forth , we must acknowledge the very great interest , from the historical point of view , of the fact that the only monuments of the kind yet discovered were built out of reverence , not for kings or chiefs ...
... opinions these thinkers put forth , we must acknowledge the very great interest , from the historical point of view , of the fact that the only monuments of the kind yet discovered were built out of reverence , not for kings or chiefs ...
Page 130
... opinion the oldest inscription yet discovered in India and what do we find ? ' 1. As to the language . It is entirely in the living language , in the vernacular . 2. As to the orthography . The consonants are roughly and rudely written ...
... opinion the oldest inscription yet discovered in India and what do we find ? ' 1. As to the language . It is entirely in the living language , in the vernacular . 2. As to the orthography . The consonants are roughly and rudely written ...
Page 140
... opinions maintained in them , considered in their own Suttas what was preserved in the Suttas of their opponents . We have a fair number of well - established instances of men who had received a long training in one school passing over ...
... opinions maintained in them , considered in their own Suttas what was preserved in the Suttas of their opponents . We have a fair number of well - established instances of men who had received a long training in one school passing over ...
Page 141
... opinion , and of practice , as to the comparative importance attached to the learn- ing of texts . But the hermitages where the learn- ing , or the repeating , of texts was unknown were the exceptions . Then , besides the Hermits ...
... opinion , and of practice , as to the comparative importance attached to the learn- ing of texts . But the hermitages where the learn- ing , or the repeating , of texts was unknown were the exceptions . Then , besides the Hermits ...
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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.