 | Faxian - Asia - 1886 - 246 pages
...where there may be aooo monks. Among them there is a Sramana of great virtue, named Dharma-gupta2, honoured and looked up to by all the kingdom. He has...for more than forty years in an apartment of stone, constantly showing such gentleness of heart, that he has brought snakes and rats to stop together in... | |
 | Gunapala Piyasena Malalasekera - Buddha (The concept) - 1928 - 360 pages
...Dharmagupta lived at Mihintale at the head of about two thousand monks. He was " a Sramana of great virtue, honoured and looked up to by all the kingdom. He has...for more than forty years in an apartment of stone, constantly showing such gentleness of heart that he brought snakes and rats to stop together in the... | |
 | Hubert E. Weerasooriya - Social Science - 1995 - 142 pages
...there may be two-thousand monks. Among them there is a Sramana of great virtue, named Dharma Gupta, honoured and looked up to by all the kingdom. He has lived for more than fourty vi-ars in an apartment of stone.' "With the wane of Anuradhapura's star the decline of Mihintale... | |
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Dharma-gupta2, honoured and looked up to by all the kingdom. He has lived for more than forty years in an apartment of stone, constantly showing such gentleness of heart, that he has brought snakes and rats to stop together in the same room, without doing... 