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CHAPTER II
THE CLANS AND NATIONS
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WT is much the same with the clans. We have a good deal of information, which is, however, at the best only fragmentary, about three or four of them. Of the rest we have little more than the bare names.
More details are given, very naturally, of the Sākiya clan than of the others. The general posi tion of their country is intimated by the distances given from other places.' It must have been just on the border of Nepalese and English territory, as is now finally settled by the recent discoveries of the tope or burial-mound put up by the Sākiyas over the portion they retained of the relics from the Buddha's funeral pyre, and of Asoka's inscription, in situ, recording his visit to the Lumbini garden in which the Buddha was born.' Which of the numerous ruins in the immediate vicinity
160 yojanas 450 miles, from Rājagaha; 50 yojanas = 375 miles, from Vesāli; 6 or 7 yojanas 50 or 60 miles, from Săvatthi; and so on. Compare the passages quoted in Rh. D., Ancient Coins and Measures of Ceylon, p. 16.
27. R. A. S. 1897, 618, and 1898, 588.
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