India, Past and Present, Volume 1H.T. Coates & Company, 1903 |
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... effects . The point of view is usually at a considerable elevation , and so thickly clustered are the innumerable ridges that the main peaks are dwarfed . Of the two giants , Mount Everest presents but a small proportion of its height ...
... effects . The point of view is usually at a considerable elevation , and so thickly clustered are the innumerable ridges that the main peaks are dwarfed . Of the two giants , Mount Everest presents but a small proportion of its height ...
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... effect of more serious campaigns . At a date approximate to 1500 B.C. Hastinapur was governed by Mahárájá Santanu , a direct descend- ant of the national hero Bhárata , who was said to have ruled over all India at an earlier period . In ...
... effect of more serious campaigns . At a date approximate to 1500 B.C. Hastinapur was governed by Mahárájá Santanu , a direct descend- ant of the national hero Bhárata , who was said to have ruled over all India at an earlier period . In ...
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... effects of which , however , did not reach full fruition until several centuries afterwards . Sakya Muni , Gautama Bhudda , or Siddhártha , was the son of the Rájá of Kapila , a district lying between Nepál and Sikkim . His early years ...
... effects of which , however , did not reach full fruition until several centuries afterwards . Sakya Muni , Gautama Bhudda , or Siddhártha , was the son of the Rájá of Kapila , a district lying between Nepál and Sikkim . His early years ...
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... effect . In substance the Bhudda's teaching was that every one should endeavor to secure for himself a happier existence in his next reincarnation by living upon the highest possible plane in his present life . He also maintained that ...
... effect . In substance the Bhudda's teaching was that every one should endeavor to secure for himself a happier existence in his next reincarnation by living upon the highest possible plane in his present life . He also maintained that ...
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... effect history proves to us . Centuries later the people of Hindustan had good reason to bless the name of Bhudda , when one of their most bloodthirsty kings , a fratricide and the wanton slayer of thousands of his subjects , embraced ...
... effect history proves to us . Centuries later the people of Hindustan had good reason to bless the name of Bhudda , when one of their most bloodthirsty kings , a fratricide and the wanton slayer of thousands of his subjects , embraced ...
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