The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s3.201

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Brâhmanism also flourished side by side with Buddhism. In the inscription at Nâsik in which Ushavadâta dedicates the cave monastery excavated at his expense for the use of the itinerant "priests of the four quarters," he speaks, as we have seen, of his many charities to Brâhmans. The same notions as regards these matters prevailed then as now. Ushavadâta fed a hundred thousand Brâhmans as the Mahârâj Sindia did about thirty years ago. It was considered highly meritorious to get Brâhmans married at one's expense then as now. Gotamîputra also, in the same inscription which records a benefaction in favour of the Buddhists, is spoken of as the only protector of Brâhmans, and as having, like Ushavadâta