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Opinions may differ as to the meaning of some of the details, but there can be no doubt as to the main subject.'
It was a great event, an impressive state ceremony, and a fitting climax to that one of the missionary efforts of Asoka's reign which was most pregnant of
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results. For there, in that beautiful land, the province most fruitful of any in India or its confines in continuous and successful literary work and effort, there have never been wanting, from that day to this, the requisite number of earnest scholars and
Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
1 Dr. Grünwedel was, I believe, the first to point this out. his Buddhist Art in India, translated by Dr. Burgess, pp. 69-72.
See
www.umaragyanbhandar.com
