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Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 1845

1845

About the same time the excavations of Buddhist monuments in the Pun aub and other places i secured a geographical basis for the empires of the Buddhists and the mains found in the topes with the decyphering of their legends by J. Prinsep brought to light a series of facts which wee of the highest iportance to true history. [...] These treatises in general belong to the same class in either collection and a work which according to the double authority of the Nepalese tradition and of the manuscripts is called Stitra is classed according to the Tibetans under the category of the Mdo that is to say the Siltras. [...] The Buddhist compositions of the North are not written in the epic style the nolf.e and at the same time simple style of the Itamfiyana and Mahabliftrat nor in the rich and coloured language of the drama nor also in the monotonous idiom of the Puranas. [...] Still the ascetics alone formed the assembly of Sakya ; it is therefore called in the texts the assembly of the mendicants." The terra San-gha implies a double relation first of all the religious with the Buddha and secondly of the religious with each other. [...] Colebrooke (who fixes the date of Varaha Nlil4ira at the close of the 5th or beginning of the 6th century of ou; Era) is conclusive; and so far as th'occurrence of the sloke in question in the modern copy of the work is admitted as a proof of its having been there from the commencement ; we have evidence for these Greek terms being known to the Hindu astrologers from the beginning of the 6th cen
history
Pages
77
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120250
Segment Pages Author Actions
Review of L’Histoire Du Buddhism Indien Par E. Burnouf. By Dr E. Roer
783-809 The Secretary view
On the Genuine Character of the Horá Sastra as Regards the Use of Greek Terms. By J. Muir Esq. C.S.
809-811 The Secretary view
Account of the Panjkora Valley and of Lower and Upper Káshkár by Rajah Khan of Cabool. Translated by Major R. Lerch C.B. Late Political Agent Candahur at Whose Request it was Drawn up in 1840
812-817 The Secretary view
On the Assam Petroleum Beds (In a Letter to Major Jenkins Communicated by Him.) By Capt. P. S. Hannay
817-821 The Secretary view
Remarks Upon the Occurrence of Granite in the Bed of the Narbudda. By Capt. J. Abbott B. A. Late Principal Assistant Commissioner Nimarr
821-822 The Secretary view
Further Notes Respecting the Late Csoma De Koros. By Lieut. Colonel Lloyd and A. Campbell. Esq. Superintendent at Darjeeling
823-827 The Secretary view
Narrative of a Tour Over That Part of the Naga Hills Lying Between the Diko and Dyang River in a Letter from Capt. Brodie P. A. Commissioner to Major Jenkins Commissioner of Assam. Communicated from the Foreign Department
828-844 The Secretary view
Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal November 1845
cxi-cxx The Secretary view
Backmatter
i-ii The Secretary view

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