 | Mahānāma - Pali literature - 1837 - 460 pages
...narrative. Suffice it to say, that from the date of the introduction of buddhism into Ceylon, in B. c. 307, that history is authenticated by the concurrence...second volume of this translation. In regard to the 230 years which elapsed,' from the death of Gotamo to the introduction of buddhism in Ceylon, in B.... | |
 | Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - Asia - 1841 - 638 pages
...li. adds, " Suffice it to say, that from the date of the introduction* of Buddhism into Ceylon, BC 307, that history is authenticated by the concurrence...can contribute to verify the annals of any country." — Introd. p. LI. The Mahawanso making its appearance contemporaneously with a translation of a work... | |
 | Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - Asia - 1841 - 630 pages
...li. adds, " Suffice it to say, that from the date of the introduction^ of Buddhism into Ceylon, BC 307, that history is authenticated by the concurrence...can contribute to verify the annals of any country." — Introd. p. LI. The Mahau-anso making its appearance contemporaneously with a translation of a work... | |
 | Sykes (Colonel, William Henry) - India - 1841 - 256 pages
...li. adds, " Suffice it to say, that from the date of the Introduction1 of Buddhism into Ceylon, BC 307, that history is authenticated by the concurrence...can contribute to verify the annals of any country." — Introd. p. LI. The Mahawanso making its appearance contemporaneously with a translation of a work... | |
 | Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - Asia - 1841 - 700 pages
...li. adds, " Suffice it to say, that from the date of the introduction* of Buddhism into Ceylon, BC 307, that history is authenticated by the concurrence...can contribute to verify the annals of any country." — Introd. p. LI. The Mahawanso making its appearance contemporaneously with a translation of a work... | |
 | Vedeha (Thera) - Sinhalese language - 1852 - 560 pages
...t • "Suffice it to say, that from the date of the introduction of Buddhism into Ceylon, in B. c. 307, that history is authenticated by the concurrence...evidence, which can contribute to verify the annals of any country.*1— Mahairanto p. /ti. t Mr. Tumour seems to think that the date of- Wijayo's landing in... | |
 | Sir George Barrow (2d bart.) - Sri Lanka - 1857 - 220 pages
...comparison of their contents, their able investigator Tumour has declared the sacred books of Ceylon to be authenticated by the concurrence of every evidence...can contribute to verify the annals of any country, nor does there appear to be the slightest ground for questioning their correctness even in minute respects."... | |
 | William Dealtry - 1870 - 292 pages
...that ' from the date of the introduction of Buddhism into Ceylon, BC 307., that history [Mahavansa] is authenticated by the concurrence of every evidence...can contribute to verify the annals of any country.' — Introduction, p. li."* Such are the merits of the best and most authentic historical work in the... | |
 | John Ferguson - Agriculture - 1893 - 536 pages
...Tumour does lay (p. 61) is this : " From the date of the introduction of Buddhism into Ceylon in BC 307, that history is authenticated by the concurrence...evidence which can contribute to verify the annals of every country." This I think is too strong a statement, even for the period to which it refers ; but... | |
 | John Ferguson - Agriculture - 1893 - 558 pages
...Turnour does lay (p. U1J is this : " From the date of the introduction of Buddhism into Ceylon in B. c. 307, that history is authenticated by the concurrence...evidence which can contribute to verify the annals of every country." This I think is too strong a statement, even for the period to which it refers ; but... | |
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