Buddhist IndiaG. P. Putnam's Sons, 1903 - 332 pages |
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... similar kind , which ought not in this connection to be left unnoticed , is the pre- valent pessimistic idea with regard to historical re- search in India . There are not only wanting in India such books giving consecutive accounts of ...
... similar kind , which ought not in this connection to be left unnoticed , is the pre- valent pessimistic idea with regard to historical re- search in India . There are not only wanting in India such books giving consecutive accounts of ...
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... similar officials , ' and it is not improbable that each of the clans had a some- what similar set of subordinate servants . 1 Vin . 4. 81 . 2 S. 4. 341 . 3 D. 2. 159 , 161 . A late tradition tells us how the criminal law was THE CLANS ...
... similar officials , ' and it is not improbable that each of the clans had a some- what similar set of subordinate servants . 1 Vin . 4. 81 . 2 S. 4. 341 . 3 D. 2. 159 , 161 . A late tradition tells us how the criminal law was THE CLANS ...
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... similar names twenty - four miles east of Bhagalpur ; and is stated to have been sixty leagues from Mit- hila ' It was celebrated for its beautiful lake , named after Queen Gaggara , who had had it excavated . On its banks was a grove ...
... similar names twenty - four miles east of Bhagalpur ; and is stated to have been sixty leagues from Mit- hila ' It was celebrated for its beautiful lake , named after Queen Gaggara , who had had it excavated . On its banks was a grove ...
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... similar outward condi- tions , in warm and fertile river valleys . And clim- ate varies greatly even in India . We must not forget that the Sakiya country , at least , in which Buddhism arose , stretched up into the lower slopes of the ...
... similar outward condi- tions , in warm and fertile river valleys . And clim- ate varies greatly even in India . We must not forget that the Sakiya country , at least , in which Buddhism arose , stretched up into the lower slopes of the ...
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... similar . We nowhere hear of isolated houses . The houses were all together , in a group , separated only by narrow lanes . Immediately ad- joining was the sacred grove of trees of the primeval forest , left standing when the forest ...
... similar . We nowhere hear of isolated houses . The houses were all together , in a group , separated only by narrow lanes . Immediately ad- joining was the sacred grove of trees of the primeval forest , left standing when the forest ...
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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.