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Buddhism and Buddhist literature in early Indian epigraphy / Kanai Lal Hazra.

Title
Buddhism and Buddhist literature in early Indian epigraphy / Kanai Lal Hazra.
Author
Hazra, Kanai Lal, 1932-
Publication
New Delhi : Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers, 2002.

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Description
xii, 204 p.; 22 cm.
Summary
"This work is a valuable addition to the earlier literature on the subject, widening and deepening its ambit, and should prove of great value to historians and research scholars, and other readers interested in the development of Buddhism in its formative years."--BOOK JACKET.
Subject
  • Buddhism > India > History > Sources
  • Buddhist inscriptions > India
  • Buddhist literature > India > Sources
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-193) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Ch. 1. Importance of the Study of Inscriptions as Sources for Social, Political, Religious, Geographical, Linguistic, and Literary Studies -- Ch. 2. Inscriptions of the Pre-Mauryan Period -- Ch. 3. Asoka, the Mauryan Ruler -- Ch. 4. Studies on the Principal Buddhist Sects, their Religion and Literature -- Ch. 5. Summary.
ISBN
8121510376
LCCN
^^2002302322
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library