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thing like a history of philosophers. Max Muller, speaking on this point in the introductory chapter of “Six systems of Indian Philosophy,” says “ While in most countries a history of philosophy is inseparable from a history of philosophers, in India we have indeed ample materials for watching the origin and growth of philosophical ideas, but hardly any for studying the lives or characters of those who founded or supported the philosophical systems of that country. Their work has remained and continues to live to the present day, but of the philosophers themselves. hardly anything remains to us beyond their names. Not even their dates can be ascertained with any amount of certainty. As for Buddha's birth, from Childers' Diction: ary of the Pâli language, we find that according to the Pâli texts, he was born about 622 B. O. and died 543 B. O., but modern rosearches by eminent European scholars, have almost conclusively shown that these dates put Buddha roughly speaking 100 years
Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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