Early History of the Dekkan down to the Mahomedan Conquest c10.31

c10.31

In the Mahâvamso, a Ceylonese chronicle which was written in the third quarter of the fifth century of the Christian era, and in the Dîpavamso, which is much older, the Buddhist saint Moggaliputto, who conducted the proceedings of the third convocation said to [12] have been held in the time of Asoka, is represented to have sent missionaries to Mahâraṭṭha, Aparântaka, and Vanavâsî²² Whether the name Mahâraṭṭha or Mahârâshṭra had come into use in the This page appears to be entirely blank.