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¹ Fa-hien's description of Asokan buildings at Patna is but mythical. 'The royal palace and halls in the midst of the city (of Pataliputra), which exist now as of old, were all made by spirits which he (Asoka) employed, and which piled up the stones, reared the walls and gates, and executed the elegant carving and inlaid sculpture work'—in a way which no human hands of this world could accomplish,—(James Legge, *A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms*, p. 77).