Voices from Ancient Sri LankaFictionalized speeches of kings and national heroes of Sri Lanka, 5th century B.C.-4th century A.D.; drawn from the Mahāvaṃśa and Dīpavaṃśa, Buddhist canonical texts. |
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... kamma holds for me , no one has been able to tell me . This , of course , is a moral conflict that I will have to live with . The palace I destroyed was an irreplaceable monument of the nation . Every corner of it was hallowed with ...
... kamma holds for me , no one has been able to tell me . This , of course , is a moral conflict that I will have to live with . The palace I destroyed was an irreplaceable monument of the nation . Every corner of it was hallowed with ...
Page 130
... Kamma as it was propounded by the Master . Each of them made a special effort to dispel the erroneous impression which most of us seem to have to the effect that Kamma was some kind of ineluctable predetermination or fate and there was ...
... Kamma as it was propounded by the Master . Each of them made a special effort to dispel the erroneous impression which most of us seem to have to the effect that Kamma was some kind of ineluctable predetermination or fate and there was ...
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Ananda W. P. Guruge. continually modified . The more of good Kamma one accumulates , the less will be the impact of bad Kamma , he said . As if to spell out a programme of action for my reign , he went on to list those good actions ...
Ananda W. P. Guruge. continually modified . The more of good Kamma one accumulates , the less will be the impact of bad Kamma , he said . As if to spell out a programme of action for my reign , he went on to list those good actions ...
Contents
King Vijayas Last Address to the Founding Fathers | 1 |
Pandukabhaya Presents His TenYear Programme of Town | 15 |
King Uttiyas Funeral Oration at the Cremation of the Mahathera | 29 |
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