Buddhist IndiaG. P. Putnam's Sons, 1903 - 332 pages |
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... records . handed down for the rest of Europe are perhaps as slight and as imperfect as those handed down in India . What is of more importance , in Europe , for the earlier periods , all the inherited materials have been made available ...
... records . handed down for the rest of Europe are perhaps as slight and as imperfect as those handed down in India . What is of more importance , in Europe , for the earlier periods , all the inherited materials have been made available ...
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... records reveal the survival , side by side . with more or less powerful monarchies , of republics with either complete or modified independence . It is significant that this important factor in the social condition of India in the sixth ...
... records reveal the survival , side by side . with more or less powerful monarchies , of republics with either complete or modified independence . It is significant that this important factor in the social condition of India in the sixth ...
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... records . ' But the main circumstance of the war against the clan is very early alluded to , and is no doubt a historical fact . It is said to have preceded only by a year or two the death of the Buddha himself . The beginning of this ...
... records . ' But the main circumstance of the war against the clan is very early alluded to , and is no doubt a historical fact . It is said to have preceded only by a year or two the death of the Buddha himself . The beginning of this ...
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... records , both of the Jains and of the Buddhists , differ from the earlier ones . It is scarcely probable , therefore , that the actual originating cause of Viḍūḍabha's invasion of the Sakiya territory was exactly as set out above . He ...
... records , both of the Jains and of the Buddhists , differ from the earlier ones . It is scarcely probable , therefore , that the actual originating cause of Viḍūḍabha's invasion of the Sakiya territory was exactly as set out above . He ...
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... records the statements that she was of Koliyan family ; and that Prince Devadaha , after whom the town was so named , was a Koliyan chief , the explanation may well be that the Koliyans were a sort of subordinate subdivision of the ...
... records the statements that she was of Koliyan family ; and that Prince Devadaha , after whom the town was so named , was a Koliyan chief , the explanation may well be that the Koliyans were a sort of subordinate subdivision of 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.