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... story is enacted in a Sinhalese play which even today draws a crowded audience and by dint of repetition has been the subject of popular belief . But although it has been generally accepted , it should be weighed in the light of the ...
... story is enacted in a Sinhalese play which even today draws a crowded audience and by dint of repetition has been the subject of popular belief . But although it has been generally accepted , it should be weighed in the light of the ...
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... story of this Jataka was told by the Master when living in Benares about the temptation of a brother by the wife of his unregenerate days . The brother confessed that owing to his wife that he had left and regretted that he had taken ...
... story of this Jataka was told by the Master when living in Benares about the temptation of a brother by the wife of his unregenerate days . The brother confessed that owing to his wife that he had left and regretted that he had taken ...
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... story , ( 4 ) an explanation of the verse or verses , and ( 5 ) an identification of the actors of the past story with the present ones among whom Buddha must be the hero . Without this framework no story is to be regarded as a Jataka ...
... story , ( 4 ) an explanation of the verse or verses , and ( 5 ) an identification of the actors of the past story with the present ones among whom Buddha must be the hero . Without this framework no story is to be regarded as a Jataka ...
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Kandy and a Kandyan Peasant | 15 |
Pilgrimages and Peraheras | 39 |
63 | 82 |
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