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(18) In the Rāyapasenaijja Jiyasattu is mentioned as king of Savatthi. “In the Kunala country." The town is the well-known capital of the Kosala country.
The Uvāsagadasão
(A. F. R. Hoernle ) P. 103 (19) The relation between Prasenajit and the Buddha are commemorated in stone in one of the Bhārhut sculptures. The sculpture bears two inscribed labels:
(1) Rājā Pasenaji Kosalo, and
(2) Bhagavato Dhama-chakan. This indicates that Prasenajit was an adherent of the Buddha symbolized as Dharma-chakra.
"Hindu Civilization. ' P. 182 ( 20 ) We thus find that the three contempo. raries of Buddha-Bimbisār, Prasenajit, and Udayan, belonged respectively to the twenty-second, twenty. third, twenty-fourth generation after the Great Battle.
"Hindu Civilization ” P. 154 આપણે આથી એમ સમજી શકીએ છીએ કે બિંબિસાર, પ્રસેનજિત અને ઉદયન, બુદ્ધદેવના સમકાલીન હતા અને તે ત્રણે અનુક્રમે મહાયુદ્ધ પછીની બાવીશમી, ત્રેવીસમી અને
વીશમી પેઢીએ થયા છે.
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