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INTRODUCTION
Page XXXIV. No record of his actual words could have been preserved. It is quite evident that the speeches placed in the Teacher's mouth, though formulated in the first person, in direct narrative, are only intended to be summaries, and very short summaries, of what was said on these occasions."
II. “ The Doctrine of the Buddha" by George Grimm.
Preface page XVI. “The fixing of the Tipitaka in writing followed only a few decades before the beginning of our era under King Vattagamini in Ceylon, to which island the Canon had been brought by Mahinda, the son of King Asoka. This definite fixing of the Pali Canon took place about 400 years after the Buddha's death." The present work sets forth the original genuine teaching of the Buddha.
III. The life of the Buddha by Edward J. Thomas, M.A., (1927).
Intro--Page XVIII. “As the authoritative teaching represented by the dogmatic utterances and discourses of the Founder were not recorded in writing, but were memorised by each school, differences inevitably began to appear.”
Page XXII. “ They (the Pali Chronicles of Ceylon) are corroborated in their main out-lines by the Puranic and Jain traditions. The chronological relations with general history have been determined by the discovery of Sir William Jones that the Candagutta (Candragupta) of the Chronicles and Puranas is the Sandrocottos of Strabo and Justin, the Indian King who about 303 B.C.
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