Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c4.t2.344

Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jātaka Stories c4.t2.344

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c4.t2.344

³ Cf. for instance his Rock Edict XI: “etaṁ dāsabhatakānaṁ samma-paṭipati mātāpi-tusu suśrusā mitra-sa-mstuta-ñātikānaṁ samarabrāhmaṇānaṁ dāna prāṇānaṁ anārambho.... sadhā.” Mookerji, Aśoka, p. 231. Aśoka himself admits that his predecessors had wished to undertake such measures for the Dhamma propagation. Cf. Pillar Edict, VII: “...ye atikantaṁ amtaṁ lājāne husu hevaṁ icchisu kathaṁ jane dhammavadhiyā vaḍheyā no chu jane amulupāyā dhammavadhiyā vaḍhithā.” Mookerji, op. cit., p. 240.

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Pillar Edict VII — Prakrit
Major Rock Edict XI — Prakrit