Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c9.s2.21

c9.s2.21

As regards the present *Mahābhārata*, Hopkins says⁵ : “Buddhist supremacy already decadent is implied by passages which allude contemptuously to the eḍūkas or Buddhistic monuments as having ousted the temples of the gods. Thus in III. 190. 65 ‘They will revere eḍūkas, they will neglect the gods’; *ib*. 67 ‘the earth shall be piled with eḍūkas, not adorned with godhouses.’ With such expressions may be compared the thoroughly Buddhistic epithet, Cāturmahārājika in XII. 339. 40 and Buddhistic philosophy as expounded in the same book.”