The Maháwanṣo in Roman Characters: With the Translation Subjoined; and an Introductory Essay on Páli Buddhistical Literature. In Two Volumes. Vol. I. Containing the First Thirty Eight Chapters |
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Page xlviii
... Chandragupta , or Sandracoptos , bears the title of Asóka , or Asókaverdhana . If this be the prince intended , Saʼkya lived about 430 years before the christian era , which is about one century posterior to the date usually assigned ...
... Chandragupta , or Sandracoptos , bears the title of Asóka , or Asókaverdhana . If this be the prince intended , Saʼkya lived about 430 years before the christian era , which is about one century posterior to the date usually assigned ...
Page xlix
... Chandragupta , in them , amount to nearly 1200 years ? And have we not his own authority for saying , that , " the only Sanscrit composition yet discovered , to which the title of history can with any propriety be applied , is the Rája ...
... Chandragupta , in them , amount to nearly 1200 years ? And have we not his own authority for saying , that , " the only Sanscrit composition yet discovered , to which the title of history can with any propriety be applied , is the Rája ...
Page li
... Chandragupta and Seleucus Nicator contemporanious . This principle of decimating has also been applied in filling up the aggregate term comprised in the reigns of the four brothers of Déwánanpiyatisso , who successively ascended the ...
... Chandragupta and Seleucus Nicator contemporanious . This principle of decimating has also been applied in filling up the aggregate term comprised in the reigns of the four brothers of Déwánanpiyatisso , who successively ascended the ...
Page lxix
... Chandragupta cannot possibly escape notice , it will surely not be denied that the extravagance , generally , of the former transcends that of the latter . And in Justinus ' account of Sandracottus , if there be much of the marvellous ...
... Chandragupta cannot possibly escape notice , it will surely not be denied that the extravagance , generally , of the former transcends that of the latter . And in Justinus ' account of Sandracottus , if there be much of the marvellous ...
Page lxxvi
... CHANDRAGUPTA and SANDROCOTTUS . It is the only point on which we can rest with any thing like confidence in the history of the Hindus , and is therefore of vital importance in all our attempts to reduce the reigns of their kings to a ...
... CHANDRAGUPTA and SANDROCOTTUS . It is the only point on which we can rest with any thing like confidence in the history of the Hindus , and is therefore of vital importance in all our attempts to reduce the reigns of their kings to a ...
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Abhayo adá ádáya áha Anuradhapura arahat ási Asóko Astyages attained attanó Atthakatha bestowed bhikkhu bhúpati bo-branch bo-tree brahman brother buddhistical capital caused celebrated Ceylon CHANAKYA CHANDRAGUPTA chétiyo chief convocation dágoba damilos datwá death delight and affliction déwos disciples diswá ditto doctrines duwé edifice elephant Ewań festival gahetwá gantwá Gótamo Harpagus hindu idha kárayi kárési katé katwá king land Lanká lord Mahá mahárája Mahawanso Maháwiháro Mahindo mahipati Medes minister monarch mountain nága náma NANDA offerings palace Páli pana PARICHCHHEDO period piety Pitakattaya priesthood priests prince propounded puchchhi purań queen queen consort rájá rajjań ranno reign relics religion repaired replied retinue royal ruler sabbé sacerdotal sahassáni Sakko sanctification sayań Singhalese sovereign supreme Buddho sutwá tadá tahin tań tank tasmiń tassa tathá tató tattha téna tésań thérań thérassa théro thou thousand thúpo Tisso translation unto wiháro Wijayo yakkhos yójanas