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Notes on Asoka Rescripts

By Sailendra Nath Mitra

Vol. 7 · No. 1March - 1931pp. 193–195English

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  • “Capalon has been taken to mean “fickle (persons)” by Hultzsch (Corpus, p. 120) and “the fickle-minded”’ by Bhandarkar (ठीक, 1925, p. 306).”
  • “DBuddha himself 15 known in the canon as ત samadapetd, ‘arouser,’ ‘instructor’ of people, and it seems that Asoka had become another such in his own time,”
  • “Wishing others to perform meritorious deeds 15 ત attitude of mind which appeals 8150 to Asoka, as 15 evident from the general tenour ofhis Rescripts, છ. g, R.E.V: fatham ૮૦ me praja anwvalatu {Mansehra).”

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  1. Hultzsch, Corpus, p. 120
  2. Bhandarkar, ठीक, 1925, p. 306
  3. Pali canon
  4. Ang, 11, pp. 253-256
  5. DhA., 111, p. 17

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1–16On Foreign Element in the TantraP. C. Bagchi17–18Dhorail Inscription of the Reign of Mahmud Shah: Saka 1455Nirad Bandhu Sanyal19–27Cultivation in Ancient IndiaR. Ganguli28–33SilaparikathaAnathnath Basu34–36Inscriptions of Govindacandra Hari Candana in the Fort of LangalaveniLakshmi Narayan Harichandan Jagadeb37–40The Candra Dynasty of ArakanJogendra Chandra Ghosh41–54The Administration of the Delhi Empire in the Pre-Mughal PeriodJogindra Nath Chowdhuri55–56Persian Inscriptions in the Gwalior StateRam Singh Saksena57–77Dandin's Conception of the GunasPrakash Chandra Lahiri78–92Origin of Madhava-Vidyaranya TheoryR. Rama Rao93–116Early Visnuism and Narayaniya WorshipMrinal Das Gupta117–124The Chronology of the Ksatrapas and the AndhrasHari Charan Ghosh125–137The Lokayatikas and the KapalikasDakshina Ranjan Shastri138–149A Short Chronology of Indian AstronomySukumar Ranjan Das150–160Taranatha's History of Buddhism in India161–162YajnesvaraKrishna K. Handiqui163–169Date of the Mudra-RaksasaS. Srikanta Sastri169–173Characteristic Features of the Sataka Form of DramaChintaharan Chakravarti173–175On Manimekhala "the guardian deity of the sea” (a Cambodian document)Sylvain Levi176–186Notes on DravidianL. V. Ramaswami Aiyar187–190Bharatavakya and the BhagavadajjukamD. R. Mankad190–191A Further note on BharatavakyaChintaharan Chakravarti191–192A Note on Meherunnisa and JehangirDasharatha Sharma193–195Notes on Asoka RescriptsSailendra Nath MitraCurrent article196–207ReviewsH. C. Ray, Niharranjan Roy208–213Select Contents of Oriental Journals

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