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... period , a dead body , green with putridity , offensive , and the prey of creeping worms , he learnt , with a force that the witchery of music and the wiles of woman could not overcome , the vanity of all that is existent , at " its ...
... period , a dead body , green with putridity , offensive , and the prey of creeping worms , he learnt , with a force that the witchery of music and the wiles of woman could not overcome , the vanity of all that is existent , at " its ...
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... period in which Buddhism originated , and that in which the Pitakas were written , are widely different questions . By no authority is it said that the sacred books , as we have them now , were written in the time of Buddha . In ...
... period in which Buddhism originated , and that in which the Pitakas were written , are widely different questions . By no authority is it said that the sacred books , as we have them now , were written in the time of Buddha . In ...
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... period , and that it was employed for religious purposes by the Buddhist monarch Asóka , the father of Mahindo , by which means he sought to extend its doctrines among all classes of his subjects , and in all parts of his dominions . We ...
... period , and that it was employed for religious purposes by the Buddhist monarch Asóka , the father of Mahindo , by which means he sought to extend its doctrines among all classes of his subjects , and in all parts of his dominions . We ...
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... period long subsequent . The testimony of contemporaneous history presents no record of any event that quadrates with the wonderful powers attributed to the rahats , which would undoubtedly not have been wanting , if these events had ...
... period long subsequent . The testimony of contemporaneous history presents no record of any event that quadrates with the wonderful powers attributed to the rahats , which would undoubtedly not have been wanting , if these events had ...
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... period strikingly marked by the inven- tion of legends ; and it may have been from the publication of the commentaries that many of them originated , or were more extensively diffused . In an extract from the Wi- bhanga Atuwawa the case ...
... period strikingly marked by the inven- tion of legends ; and it may have been from the publication of the commentaries that many of them originated , or were more extensively diffused . In an extract from the Wi- bhanga Atuwawa the case ...
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Page 39 - Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine; what is low, raise and support...
Page 67 - The profoundly wise priests had heretofore orally perpetuated the Pali Pitakattaya and its ArthakathS (commentaries). At this period these priests, foreseeing the perdition of the people (from the perversions of the true doctrines) assembled ; and in order that the religion might endure for ages, recorded the same in...
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Page 68 - Preparing for this, and studying the same, translate them according to the rules of the grammar of the Magadhas. It will be an act conducive to the welfare of the whole world.
Page 72 - Buddha, has no place in the geography of the Hindus, suggests that it may be rendered, the substance of Kapila ; intimating, in fact, the Sankhya philosophy, the doctrine of Kapila Muni, upon which the fundamental elements of Buddhism, the eternity of matter, the principles of things, and the final extinction, are supposed to be planned. < It seems not impossible...
Page 69 - Taking up his residence in the secluded Ganthakara vihara, at Anuradhapura, he translated, according to the grammatical rules of the Magadhas, which is the root of all languages, the whole of the Singhalese Atthakatha (into Pali).
Page 147 - Galle, the surface soil rests on a stratum of decomposing coral ; and sea shells are found at a considerable distance from the shore. Further north, at Madampe, between Chilaw and Negombo, the shells of pearl oysters and other bivalves are turned up by the plough more than ten miles from the sea.