Buddhist IndiaG. P. Putnam's Sons, 1903 - 332 pages |
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... tribes which had still remained aristocratic republics . And it is precisely in a very natural tend- ency to exaggerate the importance of the families of their respective founders that the later records , both of the Jains and of the ...
... tribes which had still remained aristocratic republics . And it is precisely in a very natural tend- ency to exaggerate the importance of the families of their respective founders that the later records , both of the Jains and of the ...
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... Licchavis of Vesāli . S ' James Alwis , Introduction to Pāli Grammar , p . 99 ; and Geo . Turnour , J.B.A.S. vii . 991 . 2 ? Jāt . 3. 292 . 3 Jät . 5. 125 . There are several other names of tribes of which it 22 BUDDHIST INDIA.
... Licchavis of Vesāli . S ' James Alwis , Introduction to Pāli Grammar , p . 99 ; and Geo . Turnour , J.B.A.S. vii . 991 . 2 ? Jāt . 3. 292 . 3 Jät . 5. 125 . There are several other names of tribes of which it 22 BUDDHIST INDIA.
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Thomas William Rhys Davids. There are several other names of tribes of which it is not yet known whether they were clans or under monarchical government . We have only one in- stance of any tribe , once under a monarchy , revert- ing to ...
Thomas William Rhys Davids. There are several other names of tribes of which it is not yet known whether they were clans or under monarchical government . We have only one in- stance of any tribe , once under a monarchy , revert- ing to ...
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... tribes between the mountains and the Ganges . Their progress was arrested on the east by the free clans . And the struggle between Kosala and Magadha for the paramount power in all India was , in fact , probably decided when the ...
... tribes between the mountains and the Ganges . Their progress was arrested on the east by the free clans . And the struggle between Kosala and Magadha for the paramount power in all India was , in fact , probably decided when the ...
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... tribe as that called Cedi in older documents , and had two distinct settlements . One , probably the older , was in the mountains , in what is now called Nepal . ' The other , probably a later colony , was near Kosambi to the east and ...
... tribe as that called Cedi in older documents , and had two distinct settlements . One , probably the older , was in the mountains , in what is now called Nepal . ' The other , probably a later colony , was near Kosambi to the east and ...
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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.