Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland, Volume 6Cambridge University Press for the Royal Asiatic Society, 1841 - Asia Most years contain the Proceedings and Annual report of the society. |
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... tope or chaitya , at Sanchi , near Bhilsa in Bhopal , recorded in the 6th volume of the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal , p . 456. , and the translation of which , from the an- cient Deva Nagari character , we owe to the ...
... tope or chaitya , at Sanchi , near Bhilsa in Bhopal , recorded in the 6th volume of the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal , p . 456. , and the translation of which , from the an- cient Deva Nagari character , we owe to the ...
Page 247
... tope , says , the inscription is evidently more modern than the building , and is an irregular addition to the sculpture of the gate . Capt . Cunningham conjectures A.D. , 475 . The character of the Deva Nagari appears to me to be that ...
... tope , says , the inscription is evidently more modern than the building , and is an irregular addition to the sculpture of the gate . Capt . Cunningham conjectures A.D. , 475 . The character of the Deva Nagari appears to me to be that ...
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... topes , in honour of Buddha ; M. Remusat thinks the country not far from the present Shorawak . Professor Wilson leans to the Punjab , and surmises some connexion between the name of the tope of Manikyala , the Chinese name Chu cha ...
... topes , in honour of Buddha ; M. Remusat thinks the country not far from the present Shorawak . Professor Wilson leans to the Punjab , and surmises some connexion between the name of the tope of Manikyala , the Chinese name Chu cha ...
Page 282
... Tope was raised before the invasion of the Scythians ' , and Hiuan thsang makes Kanika reign in Gandhara 400 years ... Tope , and the invader equally a Buddhist to invade the country for the pot . The Chinese assert that this pot was ...
... Tope was raised before the invasion of the Scythians ' , and Hiuan thsang makes Kanika reign in Gandhara 400 years ... Tope , and the invader equally a Buddhist to invade the country for the pot . The Chinese assert that this pot was ...
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... tope : it contained the ladder by which Buddha had descended from heaven , [ where he had been to see his mother , ] accompanied by Indra and Brahma . He does not make any mention of temples to these two personages ; but Hiuan thsang ...
... tope : it contained the ladder by which Buddha had descended from heaven , [ where he had been to see his mother , ] accompanied by Indra and Brahma . He does not make any mention of temples to these two personages ; but Hiuan thsang ...
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Page 264 - It is difficult to comprehend how men, not assisted by revelation, could have soared so high, and approached so near to the truth.' ' Besides the five great commandments not to kill, not to steal, not to commit adultery, not to lie, not to get drunk, every shade of vice, hypocrisy, anger, pride, suspicion, greediness, gossiping, cruelty to animals, is guarded against by special precepts.
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