Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c4.t2.162

Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jātaka Stories c4.t2.162

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c4.t2.162

⁵ Here, as in the phussaratha ceremony, the ministers who choose and anoint a king may well correspond to the Vedic Rājakartṛ and the Buddhist Rājakattāra—king makers: See Ved Ind., II, p. 210; Dīgha Nikāya, II, p. 233. The Jātakas also know these Rājakattāras. J., V, p. 220-G. 88; 258-G. 36: VI, pp. 259-; 268-G. 1159; 283-G. 1234; 313-G. 1373.

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Jātakatthavaṇṇanā — Pāli
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