The International Numismata Orientalia: pt. 1

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Trübner, 1874

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Side 56 - Cunningham. — THE BHILSA TOPES ; or, Buddhist Monuments of Central India: comprising a brief Historical Sketch of the Rise, Progress, and Decline of Buddhism ; with an Account of the Opening and Examination of the various Groups of Topes around Bhilsa.
Side 45 - Ns vol. xvi. p. 288), must be attributed to the end of the fifth and the beginning of the fourth century...
Side 52 - THOMAS. — EARLY SASSANIAN INSCRIPTIONS, SEALS, AND COINS, illustrating the Early History of the Sassanian Dynasty, containing Proclamations of Ardeshir Babek, Sapor I., and his Successors. With a Critical Examination and...
Side 56 - THOMAS. — JAINISM ; OR, THE EARLY FAITH OF ASOKA. With Illustrations of the Ancient Religions of the East, from the Pantheon of the Indo-Scythians. To which is added a Notice on Bactrian Coins and Indian Dates. By Edward Thomas, FRS 8vo, pp.
Side 38 - If the date for Asoka is placed too early in the Ceylon chronicles, can we still trust the 218 years which they allege to have elapsed from the commencement of the Buddhist era down to the time of Asoka ? If so we have only to add that number to the correct date of Asoka, and thus fix the Buddhist era [the date of the Buddha's death] at 483 BC or shortly after.
Side 34 - AD), and may therefore be placed at the end of the fourth or beginning of the fifth century AD* 88.
Side 1 - Whatsoever Bhikkhu shall receive gold or silver, or get some one to receive it for him, or allow it to be kept in deposit for him 4 — that is a Pa&ttiya offence involving forfeiture.
Side 78 - Part VI. On the Ancient Coins and Measures of Ceylon. With a Discussion of the Ceylon Date of the Buddha's Death.
Side 9 - The very small mote which may be discerned in a sunbeam passing through a lattice is the first of quantities, and men call it a trasarenu.
Side 10 - But the most pernicious of all deceivers is a goldsmith, who commits frauds : the king shall order him to be cut piecemeal with razors.

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