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... BISHOP OF COLOMBO PRESIDENT OF THE CEYLON BRANCH OF THE ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY NDO LONDON LONGMANS , GREEN , AND CO . AND NEW YORK : 15 EAST 16TH STREET 1892 All rights reserved ! 1892 , Jam ? Finity Schor 145-8641 Ceplisten PREFACE.
... BISHOP OF COLOMBO PRESIDENT OF THE CEYLON BRANCH OF THE ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY NDO LONDON LONGMANS , GREEN , AND CO . AND NEW YORK : 15 EAST 16TH STREET 1892 All rights reserved ! 1892 , Jam ? Finity Schor 145-8641 Ceplisten PREFACE.
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... royal patrons , and few re- spected professors ; and , twenty years ago , even intelligent observers thought that it was all but extinct . The last fifteen years have seen a remarkable revival . This has been due mainly to external ...
... royal patrons , and few re- spected professors ; and , twenty years ago , even intelligent observers thought that it was all but extinct . The last fifteen years have seen a remarkable revival . This has been due mainly to external ...
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... royal chariot - wheel rolling throughout the world . I am no lover of sun - myth theories ; but I think this latter idea may be traceable to the chariot of the sun . - See Rhys Davids , Hibbert Lectures , p . 129 seq . 1 In Maj . Nik ...
... royal chariot - wheel rolling throughout the world . I am no lover of sun - myth theories ; but I think this latter idea may be traceable to the chariot of the sun . - See Rhys Davids , Hibbert Lectures , p . 129 seq . 1 In Maj . Nik ...
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... royal city . This entrance of Gotama into Rajagaha is a celebrated epoch in Buddhist history , and later writers exhausted the language of oriental hyperbole in de- scribing its magnificence . The Maha Vagga is content with telling us ...
... royal city . This entrance of Gotama into Rajagaha is a celebrated epoch in Buddhist history , and later writers exhausted the language of oriental hyperbole in de- scribing its magnificence . The Maha Vagga is content with telling us ...
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... royal patronage has always been - in Magadha and in Ceylon -a characteristic of Buddhism . It has always thrived best as an established religion ; ' and the eagerness with which any appearance of government patronage is even now caught ...
... royal patronage has always been - in Magadha and in Ceylon -a characteristic of Buddhism . It has always thrived best as an established religion ; ' and the eagerness with which any appearance of government patronage is even now caught ...
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