Buddhist India
Clans and kingdoms, villages, towns, social grades, economic conditions, trade routes, writing, language and literature, religion, from the Pāli canon.
- Language
- English
- Author
- T. W. Rhys Davids
- Extent
- 1,282 passages, 76,554 words
- Text
- complete digital text
- Source
- archive.org · 1st ed., London: T. Fisher Unwin (Story of the Nations) 1903; scan on archive.org, OCR Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite;… · Public domain in India: every author died before 1966 (T. W. Rhys Davids †1922); published before 1931:…
Contents
- c1 Front matter — 18 parts
- c2 Preface — 10 parts
- c3 Contents — 2 parts
- c4 Illustrations — 57 parts
- c5 Chapter I. The Kings — 69 parts
- c6 Chapter II. The Clans and Nations — 130 parts
- c7 Chapter III. The Village — 32 parts
- c8 Chapter IV. Social Grades — 52 parts
- c9 Chapter V. In the Town — 59 parts
- c10 Chapter VI. Economic Conditions — 79 parts
- c11 Chapter VII. Writing—The Beginnings — 56 parts
- c12 Chapter VIII. Writing—Its Development — 42 parts
- c13 Chapter IX. Language and Literature. I. General View — 69 parts
- c14 Chapter X. Literature. II. The Pāli Books — 84 parts
- c15 Chapter XI. The Jātaka Book — 7 parts
- c16 Chapter XII. Religion—Animism — 83 parts
- c17 Chapter XIII. Religion—The Brahmin Position — 74 parts
- c18 Chapter XIV. Chandragupta — 44 parts
- c19 Chapter XV. Asoka — 89 parts
- c20 Chapter XVI. Kanishka — 26 parts
- c21 Appendix: The Most Ancient Coins of India — 13 parts
- c22 Index — 95 parts