Buddhist IndiaG. P. Putnam's Sons, 1903 - 332 pages |
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... tradition in England that all higher education may safely be left to muddle along as it best can , without system , under the not always very wise restrictions of private beneficence . One consequence is that the funds have to be ...
... tradition in England that all higher education may safely be left to muddle along as it best can , without system , under the not always very wise restrictions of private beneficence . One consequence is that the funds have to be ...
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... tradition arose , King Pajjota of Avanti and King Udena of Kosambi were believed to have been con- temporary rulers of adjoining kingdoms , and to have been connected by marriage and engaged in war . We hear a good deal else about this ...
... tradition arose , King Pajjota of Avanti and King Udena of Kosambi were believed to have been con- temporary rulers of adjoining kingdoms , and to have been connected by marriage and engaged in war . We hear a good deal else about this ...
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... tradition that the Buddha had eighty thousand families of relatives on the father's side and the same on the ... traditional , and at best a round . The old Kapilavastu was probably at Tilaura Kot . But Mr. Peppé's important discoveries ...
... tradition that the Buddha had eighty thousand families of relatives on the father's side and the same on the ... traditional , and at best a round . The old Kapilavastu was probably at Tilaura Kot . But Mr. Peppé's important discoveries ...
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... 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 AND NATIONS 22.
... 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 AND NATIONS 22.
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Thomas William Rhys Davids. A late tradition tells us how the criminal law was administered in the adjoining powerful confederate clan of the Vajjians , by a succession of regularly appointed officers , " Justices , lawyers , rehearsers ...
Thomas William Rhys Davids. A late tradition tells us how the criminal law was administered in the adjoining powerful confederate clan of the Vajjians , by a succession of regularly appointed officers , " Justices , lawyers , rehearsers ...
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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.