Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c6.s5.53

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⁹ See for a fuller significance of the term, Bhandarkar, *J.B.B.R.A.S.*, 21, pp. 305 ff; *I.A.*, XLIII, pp. 255 ff; also Ibid, XLVII, pp. 221 ff; Aśoka, pp. 19-21; F. W. Thomas, *J. R. A. S.*, 1914, pp. 392 ff. 752; 1918, 122 ff, M. M. Bose, *I. H. Q.*, IV, pp. 111-3; "Samāja was of two kinds: in one the people were treated to dainty dishes, in the other to dancing, music, wrestling and other performances... Both the kinds of Samājas seem to have been celebrated by Aśoka. But when he began to preach Dhamma, he naturally tabooed those where animals were slain to serve meat." (R. E. I.) As there was nothing in the other samājas for him to object to, he retained them: Bhandarkar, Aśoka, p. 201.