Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c3.2

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h the help derived from the *Vedic*, the Epic and the *Paurāṇic* tradire have tried to work out a plan by which to arrange the loose but varied f traditional historical facts embodied in the *Jātakas*, in some sort of logical strata. "As Bacon said, Science is possible only on generalin a quest after the unknown, it is better to have an imperfect plan than at all. In Science, a hypothesis has always, even when false, the ade of suggesting researches and experiments, even though subsequently ed by these very researches and experiments. According to the inrealization of the legend of Ugolin, every good theory is a coagulum of thought and certain number of known facts."¹