Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c23.12
Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c23.12
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c23.12
Four centuries before Alberuni, Hiuen Tsang bore witness to the fact that Lang kie(ka)-lo, a country subject to Persia, contained above 100 monasteries and more than 6,000 Brethren who applied themselves to the study of the Great and Little "Vehicles". Persia (Po-la-sse) itself contained two or three *Saṅghārāmas*, with several hundred priests, who principally studied the teaching of the Little Vehicle according to the Sarvāstivādin school. The *pātra* of Sākya Buddha was in this country, in the King's palace.¹