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... Anuradhapura , in ( what is now ) the North Central Province of Ceylon . This city was the magnificent seat of the Buddhist kings for several centuries . From the ninth century A.D. onward , they made their capital for the most part at ...
... Anuradhapura , in ( what is now ) the North Central Province of Ceylon . This city was the magnificent seat of the Buddhist kings for several centuries . From the ninth century A.D. onward , they made their capital for the most part at ...
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... Anuradhapura kept , I suppose , pretty continuous records ; and Mahinda had brought them genuine traditions of the Buddha's time , and some recollec- tions of recent events in India . All about Asoka , and a little about his father ...
... Anuradhapura kept , I suppose , pretty continuous records ; and Mahinda had brought them genuine traditions of the Buddha's time , and some recollec- tions of recent events in India . All about Asoka , and a little about his father ...
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... Anuradhapura ( Meghavana ) on the spots afterwards occupied by the Bo - tree , the Thuparama , and the Sila Dagaba , respectively . All these visits are referred to in the fifteenth chapter . The Mahavansa has nothing further to say of ...
... Anuradhapura ( Meghavana ) on the spots afterwards occupied by the Bo - tree , the Thuparama , and the Sila Dagaba , respectively . All these visits are referred to in the fifteenth chapter . The Mahavansa has nothing further to say of ...
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... Anuradhapura , the royal city , his reception there by the king , Devanampiyatissa , and the establishment of Buddhism in the island . The king of Lanka was then the great Tissa . Various wonders attended his birth . He was a great ...
... Anuradhapura , the royal city , his reception there by the king , Devanampiyatissa , and the establishment of Buddhism in the island . The king of Lanka was then the great Tissa . Various wonders attended his birth . He was a great ...
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Reginald Stephen Copleston. Such was Tissa's first great work , the Mahavihara of Anuradhapura . He was next led to the hill , Missa , where Mahinda had first appeared to him , and there began the construction of sixty - eight rock ...
Reginald Stephen Copleston. Such was Tissa's first great work , the Mahavihara of Anuradhapura . He was next led to the hill , Missa , where Mahinda had first appeared to him , and there began the construction of sixty - eight rock ...
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