Buddhist IndiaG. P. Putnam's Sons, 1903 - 332 pages |
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... TION OF THE SEVEN - STORIED GREAT BRAZEN PALACE AT ANURADHAPURA . From Cave's " Ruined Cities of Ceylon . " 75 THE SPLIT ROCK . GAMBLING SCENE FROM THE BHARAHAT TOPE. THE GREAT BUDDHIST TOPE AT SANCHI BEFORE FIG . I - KING PASENADI IN ...
... TION OF THE SEVEN - STORIED GREAT BRAZEN PALACE AT ANURADHAPURA . From Cave's " Ruined Cities of Ceylon . " 75 THE SPLIT ROCK . GAMBLING SCENE FROM THE BHARAHAT TOPE. THE GREAT BUDDHIST TOPE AT SANCHI BEFORE FIG . I - KING PASENADI IN ...
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... tion . But it was not till more than three years afterwards that , having succeeded , by the treachery of the brahmin Vassakāra , in sowing dissension . among the leading families of Vesāli , he swooped down upon the place with an ...
... tion . But it was not till more than three years afterwards that , having succeeded , by the treachery of the brahmin Vassakāra , in sowing dissension . among the leading families of Vesāli , he swooped down upon the place with an ...
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... tion of their country is intimated by the distances . given from other places . ' It must have been just on the border of Nepalese and English territory , as is now finally settled by the recent discoveries of the tope or burial - mound ...
... tion of their country is intimated by the distances . given from other places . ' It must have been just on the border of Nepalese and English territory , as is now finally settled by the recent discoveries of the tope or burial - mound ...
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... tion ; and no doubt different villages , in different districts , varied one from another in the customs of land - tenure and in the rights of individual house- holders as against the community . It is a common error , vitiating all ...
... tion ; and no doubt different villages , in different districts , varied one from another in the customs of land - tenure and in the rights of individual house- holders as against the community . It is a common error , vitiating all ...
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... tion , at the same time , in Italy or Greece . There is no word even for caste . The words often wrongly rendered by that modern expression ( itself derived from a Portuguese word ) have something to do with the question , but do not ...
... tion , at the same time , in Italy or Greece . There is no word even for caste . The words often wrongly rendered by that modern expression ( itself derived from a Portuguese word ) have something to do with the question , but do not ...
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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.