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... The International Numismata Orientalia: pt. 1 - Side 38af Edward Thomas - 1874Fuld visning - Om denne bog
| 1922 - 852 sider
...this uncertainty which were explained by the present writer in 1877 still remain the same : If the date for Asoka is placed too early in the Ceylon chronicles,...correct date of Asoka, and thus fix the Buddhist era [the date of the Buddha's death] at 483 BC or shortly after. Of the answer to this question, there... | |
| E.J. RAPSON - 1922 - 842 sider
...this uncertainty which were explained by the present writer in 1877 still remain the same : If the date for Asoka is placed too early in the Ceylon chronicles,...correct date of Asoka, and thus fix the Buddhist era [the date of the Buddha's death] at 483 BC or shortly after. Of the answer to this question, there... | |
| Edward James Rapson - 1922 - 848 sider
...this uncertainty which were explained by the present writer in 1877 still remain the same : If the date for Asoka is placed too early in the Ceylon chronicles,...we still trust the 218 years which they allege to hare elapsed from the commencement of the Buddhist era down to the time of Asoka ? If so we have only... | |
| Thomas William Rhys Davids - 1996 - 80 sider
...must be corrected to bring it into accord with the more trustworthy information which places Asoka's coronation at 265 BC or shortly after. 98. But if...at 483 BC or shortly after. Of the answer to this question there can, I think, be no doubt. We can not : for though we have here no external evidence*... | |
| Paul Williams - 2005 - 344 sider
...Tissa and Du{thagamanT, and not later17. TW Rhys Davids has already formulated the consequence: 'If the date for Asoka is placed too early in the Ceylon chronicles,...commencement of the Buddhist era down to the time of Asoka? . . . Of the answer to this question, there can I think, be no doubt. We can not'1*. (2) There are... | |
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