Adam's Peak: Legendary, Traditional, and Historic Notices of the Samanala and Srî-páda, with a Descriptive Account of the Pilgrim's Route from Colombo, to the Sacred Foot-print |
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... says : - " Without attempting to discuss the history , or the mytho- logical legends connected with this place , I cannot help speculating regarding the origin of its sanctity in the first place . Here is a place which the Buddhist ...
... says : - " Without attempting to discuss the history , or the mytho- logical legends connected with this place , I cannot help speculating regarding the origin of its sanctity in the first place . Here is a place which the Buddhist ...
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... says , in a paper published in the Journal of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society for 1846 , " I have little doubt that it will one day be proved , even from the most sacred books of the Buddhists themselves , that the ...
... says , in a paper published in the Journal of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society for 1846 , " I have little doubt that it will one day be proved , even from the most sacred books of the Buddhists themselves , that the ...
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... says " The Chinese came here at some former time , and cut out from this stone the place of the great toe , together with the stone about it , and placed it in a temple in the city of Zaitun : and pilgrimages are made to it from the ...
... says " The Chinese came here at some former time , and cut out from this stone the place of the great toe , together with the stone about it , and placed it in a temple in the city of Zaitun : and pilgrimages are made to it from the ...
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... says in the 38th chapter of his interesting narrative , " By the strength of his divine foot , he [ Foe , i . e . Buddha ] left the print of one of his feet to the north of the royal city , and the print of the other on the summit of a ...
... says in the 38th chapter of his interesting narrative , " By the strength of his divine foot , he [ Foe , i . e . Buddha ] left the print of one of his feet to the north of the royal city , and the print of the other on the summit of a ...
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... say.— King Perakum , then citizen , that is , whom all obey . At a later date the Sivaites became the actual custodians of the mountain , Rája Sinha the Apostate from Buddhism having delivered it over to a body of Aandiyás , Fakeers of ...
... say.— King Perakum , then citizen , that is , whom all obey . At a later date the Sivaites became the actual custodians of the mountain , Rája Sinha the Apostate from Buddhism having delivered it over to a body of Aandiyás , Fakeers of ...
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