 | Edward James Rapson - India - 1922 - 848 pages
...of early Buddhist chronology, we are still uncertain as to the exact date of the Buddha's birth. The date 483 BC which is adopted in this History must...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... | |
 | Paul Williams - Religion - 2005 - 344 pages
...Devanampiya. 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...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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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... 