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... Dagaba , 282 PART III - BUDDHISM IN CEYLON XXII . MAHINDA AND THE CONVERSION OF CEYLON : The Lesser Sermon of the Parable of the Elephant's Footmarks , 310 XXIII . BETWEEN MAHINDA AND BUDDHAGHOSHA : Date of Fá Hien's Visit to Ceylon ...
... Dagaba , 282 PART III - BUDDHISM IN CEYLON XXII . MAHINDA AND THE CONVERSION OF CEYLON : The Lesser Sermon of the Parable of the Elephant's Footmarks , 310 XXIII . BETWEEN MAHINDA AND BUDDHAGHOSHA : Date of Fá Hien's Visit to Ceylon ...
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... dagaba of Sanchi , that two characters occurred invariably at the end of each . The pillars seemed likely to contain the record of some pious offering , and the inspiration came to him that these characters might be the word for ' gift ...
... dagaba of Sanchi , that two characters occurred invariably at the end of each . The pillars seemed likely to contain the record of some pious offering , and the inspiration came to him that these characters might be the word for ' gift ...
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... dagaba ' to be built solid over the relics which it encloses ; not to be left open for them to be put in afterwards . If this is an unbroken rule , as I believe it is , the Mahavansa preserves the record of a minute fact , which was ...
... dagaba ' to be built solid over the relics which it encloses ; not to be left open for them to be put in afterwards . If this is an unbroken rule , as I believe it is , the Mahavansa preserves the record of a minute fact , which was ...
Page 282
... Buddha . See Dig . Nik . p . 204 ; Samanta Pásád . p . 286 . fessor Childers considered this interpretation to be a blunder , 282 CRITICAL HISTORY OF THE CANONICAL LITERA- TURE: Note on the Pitakas and the Ruwan weli Dagaba,
... Buddha . See Dig . Nik . p . 204 ; Samanta Pásád . p . 286 . fessor Childers considered this interpretation to be a blunder , 282 CRITICAL HISTORY OF THE CANONICAL LITERA- TURE: Note on the Pitakas and the Ruwan weli Dagaba,
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... DAGABA . AN interesting commentary on the biography of the Buddha is found in Mahavansa ( chapter xxx . ) , where a list is given of the sculptures with which a great king of Ceylon , Dutthagamini , adorned the Ruwanweli Dagaba about ...
... DAGABA . AN interesting commentary on the biography of the Buddha is found in Mahavansa ( chapter xxx . ) , where a list is given of the sculptures with which a great king of Ceylon , Dutthagamini , adorned the Ruwanweli Dagaba about ...
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