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at present thinks of doubting with Prof. H. Wilson, that Buddha was very probably a mythical personage, his own name, the name of his mother Maya, and the place of his birth Kapilavastu being simply allegorical Nor are there at present many persons to share the ingenious opinion of Emile Senart, who while acknowledging that Buddhism must have a founder, refuses to believe that the Buddha of whom the Buddhist tradition speaks ever lived. Senart basing his opinion entirely on 'Lalita Vistara' the legendary biography current among the northern Buddhists, sees in the history of Buddha's life only an allegorical representation of the destinies of the Sun-hero. All doubts about the birth place of Buddha have been cleared away entirely by the very recent investigation of Dr. Waddell and Dr. Führer, who were not only able to indentify the city of Kapilavastu, Buddha's birth-place, but also the very garden of Lumbini in which he is said to have been born. Now Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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