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5.280 says that the Council concluded in the seventeeth year of the reign of
Asoka . It lasted , according to both chronicles , nine months . Thus , according to
FLEET'S ' reckoning , the Council began in the middle of January 247 B.C. and
came ...
5.280 says that the Council concluded in the seventeeth year of the reign of
Asoka . It lasted , according to both chronicles , nine months . Thus , according to
FLEET'S ' reckoning , the Council began in the middle of January 247 B.C. and
came ...
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of the First Council disappears . He is of opinion that , since Subhadda's words
are mentioned , in the Mahaparinibbaņa sutta , there must also have been some
allusion to the Council if it really was brought about by those words . According to
...
of the First Council disappears . He is of opinion that , since Subhadda's words
are mentioned , in the Mahaparinibbaņa sutta , there must also have been some
allusion to the Council if it really was brought about by those words . According to
...
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It is perhaps not too daring to conjecture that in this division associated with the
name of Mahadeva there is a reminiscence of the proceedings that brought about
the Third Council . But this conjecture is now also confirmed by an acute ...
It is perhaps not too daring to conjecture that in this division associated with the
name of Mahadeva there is a reminiscence of the proceedings that brought about
the Third Council . But this conjecture is now also confirmed by an acute ...
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Contents
Foreword by His Excellency J R Jayewardene | 1 |
A Double Anniversary Why Another Translation? | 11 |
Turnour Wijesinha and Geiger | 27 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Mahāvaṃsa, the Great Chronicle of Sri Lanka: Chapters One to Thirty-seven : an Annotated New Translation with Prolegomena |
| Authors | Mahānāma, Ananda W. P. Guruge |
| Translated by | Ananda W. P. Guruge |
| Publisher | Associated Newspapers of Ceylon, 1989 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 23 Feb 2007 |
| ISBN | 9559034022, 9789559034025 |
| Length | 1129 pages |
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