Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c6.s3.166
Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jātaka Stories c6.s3.166
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⁴ Dr. Barua remarks: “Though here the custom is one of cremation and the man is a member of the Āryan or cultured community, he is said to have lamented, being subject to natural weakness and subconsciously under the superstitious belief that his weeping might bring back the departed soul.” *I. H. Q.*, II, p. 19: also *Barhut stone as a story-teller*. Scene in Cunningham’s *Stūpa of Barhut*, pl. xlvii, 3.