The Mauryan Polity c11.s3.t3.22

c11.s3.t3.22

(3) Professor H. H. Wilson draws our attention to "the total omission of any allusion to Buddha himself by any of his appellations, Sugata, Tathāgata, Gautama, Sākya, or Sākyasinha, all which occur repeatedly in the Buddhist writings, both of Tibet and of Ceylon, and which the Sāranāth Buddhist inscription proves it was not unusual to allude to in the sculptured inscriptions of that religion. Neither is there any allusion to his family, or to any of his early disciples, or to any of the Bodhisatwas, who are sufficiently conspicuous in the Kahgyur and Mahawanso, nor does any hint occur of Stūpas, Vihārs, or Caityas, or of the Bodhi, or Bo tree,—everywhere else so frequently adverted to. Neither do we find anything that can be regarded as peculiarly Buddhist doctrines, for the moral duties inculcated are the same that are enjoyed by Brahmanical writings, and there is at least one duty enforced which it is very difficult to reconcile with the spirit of Buddhism; reverence for, or rather the service of (suśrusha) the Brahmans."³