Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c18.s3.100
Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c18.s3.100
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³ One account possibly mentions Gandhāra as the place where the Assembly met. The earliest authorities seem to locate it in Kashmir. *Kundalavana vihāra* appears to be the name of the monastery where the theologians assembled probably under the presidency of Vasumitra. The chief business of the Synod seems to be the collection of canonical texts, and the preparation of commentaries on them (Smith, *EHI*⁴, pp. 283 ff; Law, *Buddhistic Studies*, 71).