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Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c4.s1.56

Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jātaka Stories c4.s1.56

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⁵ J., VI, pp. 396-7—GG. 1451-8. A similar description occurs at J. V, 322-GG. 117-28; the music in the army consisted of ' *bheri*, *mūtiṅgā* ca *saṅkhā* *panavadendimā*'; the tumultuous army is thus pictured: '*akkhobhanī* *apariyantā* *sāgarasseva* *ūmiyo*' 'Unbroken, limitless, as are the billows of the main.' The ordinary soldiers *khaggam* *chattam* ca *paṇḍaram*" J. VI, p. 22-G. 72; also V, p. 322-GG. 119-22. See Hopkins, *J. A. O. S.*, pp. 316 ff.

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