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Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute

1926

This illustrates the attempt on the part of the Buddhist writer or writers to make the ignorant people believe that they should join the new school of religious reform led by the Buddha in as much as even the chief of the popular gods acknowledges the superiority of the Buddha. [...] We see in the Mahapadftna sutta the manifestation of this theory in the creation of the six past Buddhas and the life-account of the historical Gotama Buddha in the main being transferred to the first in the list of these six predecessors of the Buddha. [...] It is the least interesting as being a mere catalogue of the different sections of the Dhamma approaching in form and style the Sanglti and the Dasuttara suttas the last two of the third vol. [...] detailing the teachings of the Buddha under the three headings of Slla Samadhi and Panna in the same breath with the suttas of the mythological nature like the Mahasamaya Janavasabha Mahagovinda or Sakkapannha suttas of the second vol. [...] (iii) In the sth&pana is nowhere mentioned the name of the poet or his works unlike the classioal plays (iv) The Bharatavakya ends everywhere with the prayer May our mighty king rule the whole earth ". (v) The dramas have in many places a structural similarity and in the opening verse of many of the plays the names of the principal persons are woven together; these considerations are proofs of h
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Authors

Dr. R.N. Dandekar

Pages
154
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120009
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-vi D.R Bhandarkar, C.R Devadar view
The Different Strata in the Literary Material of the Digha Nikaya
1-16 P.V Bapat view
The Plays Ascribed to Bhasa Their Authenticity and Merits
17-42 C.R Devadhar view
The Geography of Vatsyayana
43-62 Baran Chaklader view
Observations on Hemaoandra’s Desinamamala
63-71 P.L Baidaya view
Hindu Theories of Punishment
72-92 J.N.C Ganguly view
Dharma-Sutra of Shankha-Likhita
93-132 unknown view
Pabasika Dominion in Ancient India
133-141 D.R Bhandarkar view
Fragment of an Inscribed Hymn of Sarsvati Found at Mandu
142-144 K.K Lele view
The Culture of Mathematics Among the Jain as of Southern India in the Ninth Century A. D.
145-147 D.M Ray view

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