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SS The Indian attitude to history has , of course , been explained by such scholars as Betty Heimann and A.L. ... this fact most dramatically demonstrated when the early epigraphists working in India could find nothing in the historical ...
SS The Indian attitude to history has , of course , been explained by such scholars as Betty Heimann and A.L. ... this fact most dramatically demonstrated when the early epigraphists working in India could find nothing in the historical ...
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69 ( 3 ) By the time the Dravidian populations developed as organized kingdoms or states in South India , the Indo - Aryan settlers were well - established in Sri Lanka with a fully developed national identity as evinced by a distinct ...
69 ( 3 ) By the time the Dravidian populations developed as organized kingdoms or states in South India , the Indo - Aryan settlers were well - established in Sri Lanka with a fully developed national identity as evinced by a distinct ...
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Most flourishing in Magadha ( C. India ) ; almost all belong to this in N. India . A few in Lata and Sindhu and in S. India . Side by side with the others in E. India . Three subdivisions ( b ) , ( c ) , ( d ) are not found in India ...
Most flourishing in Magadha ( C. India ) ; almost all belong to this in N. India . A few in Lata and Sindhu and in S. India . Side by side with the others in E. India . Three subdivisions ( b ) , ( c ) , ( d ) are not found in India ...
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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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