Mahāvaṃsa, the Great Chronicle of Sri Lanka: Chapters One to Thirty-seven : an Annotated New Translation with Prolegomena |
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... Rhys Davids : Buddhist India , Banarsidas , Delhi , 1971 p . 276 . 99 Sylvain Levi : Journal des Savants . 1905. p . 539 quoted in Maurice Winternitz : Op . Cit . Vol II p . 209 . 100 T. W. Rhys Davids : Buddhist India , Banarsidas ...
... Rhys Davids : Buddhist India , Banarsidas , Delhi , 1971 p . 276 . 99 Sylvain Levi : Journal des Savants . 1905. p . 539 quoted in Maurice Winternitz : Op . Cit . Vol II p . 209 . 100 T. W. Rhys Davids : Buddhist India , Banarsidas ...
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... Rhys Davids . His assessment of the evidence of Sri Lankan Pali sources was : " I am not prepared to say , though their evidence is so much later , there may not be some truth in their view " . Thus implicitly assigning Asoka's contact ...
... Rhys Davids . His assessment of the evidence of Sri Lankan Pali sources was : " I am not prepared to say , though their evidence is so much later , there may not be some truth in their view " . Thus implicitly assigning Asoka's contact ...
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... Rhys Davids who , in 1902 , expressed his initial doubts in the following terms : " It is difficult to say how much of this is mere royal rodomantade . It is quite likely that the Greek kings are only thrown in by way of make - weight ...
... Rhys Davids who , in 1902 , expressed his initial doubts in the following terms : " It is difficult to say how much of this is mere royal rodomantade . It is quite likely that the Greek kings are only thrown in by way of make - weight ...
Contents
Foreword by His Excellency J R Jayewardene | 5 |
A Double Anniversary Why Another Translation? | 11 |
Chapter | 27 |
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