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much mutilated insists upon the practice of essentials of all religions. The fourteenth refers to the form of dhammalipis.
This brief summary would help our imagination to rcalise how it must have affected the very depths of the springs of human action. There can be no record of the results of such mental processes - either in individuals or groups. But that its effect must have been immense admits of no doubt. Two tendencies to be observed in the mass of Gujarāt people through their history - one feeling a sort of repulsion to killing animals, and the other feeling no particular antipathy towards people of different religious persuasions - owe their development not a little to this influence. The sentiment of Ahimsā - non-violence - towards animals was no doubt fostered by the Jaina influence, and the attitude of toleration must have proved a very useful equipment of mind to a commercial people.
Gujarat had another emperor of Asoka's type in Kūmāra pāla ( 12 cen. A. D.) who used his royal influence to spread dharma.
Immediate succession after Asoka is not definitely known. The inscriptions of the cave at the Bara'ber hill near Gaya and at the Nāgārjuna hill bear testimony to the succession of Dasaratha - probably a grandson, The caves are dedicated to the Ajīvaka sect. Another successor of Asoka was Samprati. Though there is no epigraphic evidence of his existence * he is mentioned in the Brāhmaṇic, Buddhist and Jaina traditions. According to the Jaina tradition he was converted to Jainism by the Sthavira Suhastin, and was a builder of
* Mr. Jayswal identifies some coins as those of Samprati.
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