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The Theosophist A Magazine of Oriental Philosophy Art Literature & Occultism April 1890

1890

The Mahavansa then goes on to state that in the 2299th year of Buddha's Parinirvana the sixth after the dispatch of his embassy to Siam—the Sinhalese monarch convoked the priesthood in the Uposatha (ordination) hall of the Malwatta Vihara for the cermony of ordination. [...] The Kings of Siam Cambodia and the ex-King of Burma honor him and have sent valuable gifts to his College ; the Government of Bombay at the instance of the ex-Governor of Ceylon gave him some of the Sopara relics of Buddha; the Japanese sects have sent a number of clever young priests to be educated under him in Sanskrit and Pali ; he scrtinised and gave his imprimatur to the Buddhist Catech [...] It was pointed out that the physical automatism implied by the theory deprived the origintion and evolution of consciousness of any raison (Pare ; that in addition to the inconceivability of the passage of neurosis into psychosis the motion so glibly transmuted' is " otherwise eployed" in coursing through the highways of the brain. [...] Says Varahamihira :— 2526 added to the current of the era of Salivahana gives the era of Yudhishthira." This is the 1811th year of the Saka era and hence the (1811+2526=4337) year of the era of Yudhithira.. [...] Nothing is said of the rule of these families from Parikshit to the four contemporaneous families of the Andhras (7 kings) the Kanshalas (7 kings) the Vidurapatis and the Nishadhas except in a It is always very difficult to find out the history of a proper name.
philosophy religion
Pages
72
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120171
Segment Pages Author Actions
The Theosophist
347-408 unknown view
Supplement to the Theosophist
cxix-cxxviii unknown view

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