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... reign is very uncertain , authorities varying from B.C. 40 to A.D. 100.2 But it is in connection with his name that a conjecture has been hazarded , which is at least picturesque . What Asoka was in B.C. 250 , Kanishka is said to have ...
... reign is very uncertain , authorities varying from B.C. 40 to A.D. 100.2 But it is in connection with his name that a conjecture has been hazarded , which is at least picturesque . What Asoka was in B.C. 250 , Kanishka is said to have ...
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... reign , reaffirmed it ; while the second , half - way between the two , vindicated the received rules of monastic life against certain minute innovations . It is easier to set this tradition aside than to ascertain what is true . But we ...
... reign , reaffirmed it ; while the second , half - way between the two , vindicated the received rules of monastic life against certain minute innovations . It is easier to set this tradition aside than to ascertain what is true . But we ...
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... reign the particular inscription is set up . The fourteen rock Edicts date from the thirteenth and fourteenth years of his reign , two of the tablets from the thirteenth , the pillars from the twenty - seventh and twenty - eighth years ...
... reign the particular inscription is set up . The fourteen rock Edicts date from the thirteenth and fourteenth years of his reign , two of the tablets from the thirteenth , the pillars from the twenty - seventh and twenty - eighth years ...
Page 258
... reign of their author . Who then was their author ? The name of Asoka is not to be found in them . The author is Piyadasi , or in full , Devanampiya Piyadasi Rája ( King Piyadasi the delight of the gods ) , as he styles himself in most ...
... reign of their author . Who then was their author ? The name of Asoka is not to be found in them . The author is Piyadasi , or in full , Devanampiya Piyadasi Rája ( King Piyadasi the delight of the gods ) , as he styles himself in most ...
Page 259
... reign , ran another list , that of the succession of presiding monks , and that the two lists did not exactly tally ; but the discrepancy was only of some sixty years , and Mr. Turnour suggested a very probable way of accounting for it ...
... reign , ran another list , that of the succession of presiding monks , and that the two lists did not exactly tally ; but the discrepancy was only of some sixty years , and Mr. Turnour suggested a very probable way of accounting for it ...
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