Early Monastic Buddhism v2.c39.s3.3
Early Monastic Buddhism v2.c39.s3.3
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v2.c39.s3.3
many distinguished scholars have reconstructed the history of this great man from the several inscriptions left by him, and the traditions preserved in the Buddhist-Sanskrit and Pāli texts. These traditions¹ have not been so exhaustively studied as the inscriptions and so we have thought it fit to give them here in bare outlines to enable the readers to find out from the mass of legends the common nuclei which might be taken as authentic.