Author: Laurence Austine WaddellPublisher:
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Category : Patna (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 114
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Report on the Excavations at Pātaliputra (Patna)
Author: Laurence Austine WaddellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Patna (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Report on the Excavations at Pataliputra (Patna)
Author: Report on the Excavations at Pātaliputra (Patna)
Author: Laurence Austine WaddellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Patna (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Report on the Excavations at Pātaliputra (Patna)
Author: Laurence Austine WaddellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Patna (India)
Languages : en
Pages :
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Report on the Excavations at Pataliputra (Patna)
Author: L. A. WaddellPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780483154483
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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Excerpt from Report on the Excavations at Pātaliputra (Patna): The Palibothra of the Greeks Although it was not one of the very oldest cities of India, it was the seat of the most powerful ancient dynasties, and it has given us, through the narrative of a Greek ambassador to its court, our first fixed landmark in Indian chronology. Its buried ruins also doubtless still hide invaluable materials for reconstructing much of the lost history of early India, and especially for solving that important question as to the influence of the West upon the early civilization of Ancient India. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Report on the Excavations at Pataliputra; the Palibothra of the Greeks
Author: Laurence Austine WaddellPublisher: Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN: 9781230168487
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 34
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ...latter point (20 on map and 19 on plan II) is the celebrated holy well, called the 'Agam Kuan? 1 Thus were obtained the carved post (plate II, fig. 3) and door jamb, the cross-bars of railing (plate V), a scroll architrave, evidently of Asoka's age. Of those still fixed in walls is the image of the preaching Buddha which is in old sandstone and is extremely interesting in that the attitude of the fingers is identical with that still figured conventionally by the Japanese and Tibetans in representing certain mystical Buddhas. This sacred well, the name of which literally seems to mean 'the Fiery Well, ' appears to me to be a surviving vestige of the so-called 'hell' of Asoka with its fiery cauldrons, which the later monkish legend credited Asoka with having deliberately made to torture poor people, Nero-like, in the days before his conversion to Buddhism.1 What we know, however, of Asoka as a brave soldier and kind-hearted man goes quite against the credibility of this story, and the reference in his edict-inscription (No. VIII) that 'in past days the Kings went on pleasure excursions, stag-hunting, &c., ' the simple tone of such passages, as Dr. Kern well says, is "calculated to awaken in us the conviction that the atrocities attributed by the later Buddhists to their benefactor rests upon a misunderstanding. The stories of both the Northern and Southern Buddhists to which it is usual to give the specious name of 'traditions' differ among themselves to such an extent as to be suspicious on that ground alone. The ninety-nine-fold fratricide committed, as is stated by Asoka, is related with such circumstantiality that its untruth is palpable. The story of the Northern Buddhists is different, but if possible still more inept....
Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland
Author: Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and IrelandPublisher:
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Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 1088
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Has appendices.
Proceedings
Author: Asiatic Society (Calcutta, India)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Proceedings
Author: Linnean Society of LondonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 654
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The Cambridge History of India: Ancient India, edited by E.J. Rapson
Author: Edward James RapsonPublisher:
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 852
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