Mahāvaṃsa, the Great Chronicle of Sri Lanka: Chapters One to Thirty-seven : an Annotated New Translation with Prolegomena |
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... Indian sub - continent well - nigh worthless as sources of its ancient history . We have observed how this fact was most dramatically demonstrated when the early epigraphists working in India could find nothing in the historical ...
... Indian sub - continent well - nigh worthless as sources of its ancient history . We have observed how this fact was most dramatically demonstrated when the early epigraphists working in India could find nothing in the historical ...
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... India , on the contrary , had experienced several waves of formidable influences from the North and did not evolve a ... India . Even when we commence with the Mauryan period as the baseline , the information on South India is very ...
... India , on the contrary , had experienced several waves of formidable influences from the North and did not evolve a ... India . Even when we commence with the Mauryan period as the baseline , the information on South India is very ...
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... Indian origin are concerned . - ( iii ) Asoka of the Northern Buddhist Sources In contrast to the relative silence of the secular and Hindu sources of India , the literature of the Northern Schools of Buddhism in Sanskrit , Chinese and ...
... Indian origin are concerned . - ( iii ) Asoka of the Northern Buddhist Sources In contrast to the relative silence of the secular and Hindu sources of India , the literature of the Northern Schools of Buddhism in Sanskrit , Chinese and ...
Contents
Foreword by His Excellency J R Jayewardene | 5 |
A Double Anniversary Why Another Translation? | 11 |
Chapter | 27 |
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