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The Journal of the Greater India Society July 1939

1939

Thus the Aryan colonists were from the very outset compelled to construct storage tanks in order to accumulate the surplus of the raiwater that had fallen during the wet months for the watering of the paddy fields in the dry season. [...] 'Here was the residence of the Sinhalese kings and the seat of the Government—in Anuradhapura as we can generally say up to the Cola invasion at the end of the tenth century and in Pulatthinagara from the end of the eleventh to the end of the thirteenth century. [...] They were adorned with splendid palaces and other buildings and each with a monastery erected byCONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE MAHAVAMSA 91 the king : the first with the Isipatana-vihara the second with the Kusinara-vihara and the third with the Veluvana-vihara. [...] We have a decisive proof of it in the inscriptions of Kalyani If the belief in the introduction of the scriptures to Pegu by Buddhaghoa had asserted at that time the pious king would have no doubt reserved to it a place of honour in his abridgement of the history of the Church. [...] The identification of the last-named country is generally acceped." Chin-lin thus refers to the region of the Gulf of Martaban which is certainly the same as the 'great bay of the Frontier of Gold' referred to in the Chinese texts." 16.
philosophy religion
Pages
94
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120050
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-ii U.N. Ghoshal view
Contributions from the Mahavamsa to our knowledge of the Mediaeval Culture of Ceylon
81-98 Wilhelm Geiger view
Early Traces of Buddhism in Burma
99-123 Nihar Ray view
The Copper-plate of Barabudur 828 Saka
124-130 Himanshu Sarkar view
Recent Researches on Indo-European Fauna
131-137 Batakrishna Ghosh view
Recent advances in kambuja studies
138-145 B.R. Chatterjee view
Reviews
146-161 unknown view
Comment and Criticism
162-164 unknown view
Select Contents of Oriental Journals
165-168 unknown view
Books Received
169-170 unknown view
Backmatter
i-ii unknown view

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