Buddhist IndiaG. P. Putnam's Sons, 1903 - 332 pages |
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Page 48
... earlier times , the appointment was either hereditary , or conferred by the village council itself . This village headman had , no doubt , to prepare 1 Sat. Br . 13. 3 , 7 . 2 Dialogues of the Buddha , I. 108 , etc. Comp . M. 3. 133 ...
... earlier times , the appointment was either hereditary , or conferred by the village council itself . This village headman had , no doubt , to prepare 1 Sat. Br . 13. 3 , 7 . 2 Dialogues of the Buddha , I. 108 , etc. Comp . M. 3. 133 ...
Page 50
... earlier , it is possible ( but not , I think , very probable ) that things , in this respect , had improved in the interval between the times re- ferred to in our records , and that of Megasthenes . We shall see below , in the chapter ...
... earlier , it is possible ( but not , I think , very probable ) that things , in this respect , had improved in the interval between the times re- ferred to in our records , and that of Megasthenes . We shall see below , in the chapter ...
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... earlier , and not the later , state of things with which we are so much familiar . They claim for the north - western , as distinct from the east- erly , provinces a most strict adherence to ancient custom . The ideal land is , to them ...
... earlier , and not the later , state of things with which we are so much familiar . They claim for the north - western , as distinct from the east- erly , provinces a most strict adherence to ancient custom . The ideal land is , to them ...
Page 63
... earlier times the fortifications were often similar in kind . But we are nowhere told of the length of the fortifications or of the extent of the space they enclosed . It would seem that we have to think , not so much of a large walled ...
... earlier times the fortifications were often similar in kind . But we are nowhere told of the length of the fortifications or of the extent of the space they enclosed . It would seem that we have to think , not so much of a large walled ...
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... ; translated in Yatawara's Ummagga Jātaka . ? These gods must have been made by the clansmen in the free re- publics , or they would not have had a mote - hall . books referring to this earlier period , there is no 66 BUDDHIST INDIA.
... ; translated in Yatawara's Ummagga Jātaka . ? These gods must have been made by the clansmen in the free re- publics , or they would not have had a mote - hall . books referring to this earlier period , there is no 66 BUDDHIST INDIA.
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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.