Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c2.43
Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jātaka Stories c2.43
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c2.43
⁶ Essai sur Guṇādhya Et la Brhadkathā translated in Q. J. M. S. IV, pp. 64-85 "However fanciful it may be, it introduces us into a mixed world of princes, priests, merchants and artisans who feel, act and speak as men of their time, of their faith and caste... In a country so miserably poor in historical documents, tales are more than pleasing literary compositions. They are a mirror where the historian is allowed to contemplate, without being too deformed, a pretty exact image of the life of the people and the vicissitudes of the religious and social state."