 | Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - Asia - 1850 - 534 pages
...Buddhism expounded their doctrines, seems to have been rather the spoken language of the people in Upper India, than a form of speech peculiar to a class of religionists, or a sacred language, and its use in the edicts of Piyadasi, although not incompatible with their Buddhist... | |
 | Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - Asia - 1850 - 628 pages
...Buddhism expounded their doctrines, seems to have been rather the spoken language of the people in Upper India, than a form of speech peculiar to a class of religionists, or a sacred language, and its use in the edicts of Piyadasi, although not incompatible with their Buddhist... | |
 | James Prinsep - India - 1858 - 660 pages
...Buddhism expounded their doctrines, seems to have been rather the spoken language of the people in Upper India, than a form of speech peculiar to a class of religionists, or a sacred language, and its use in the edicts of Piyadasi, although not incompatible with their Buddhist... | |
 | James Prinsep - India - 1858 - 658 pages
...Buddhism expounded their doctrines, seems to have been rather the spoken language of the people in Upper India, than a form of speech peculiar to a class of religionists, or a sacred language, and its use in the edicts of Piyadasi, although not incompatible with their Buddhist... | |
 | John Muir - Brahmanism - 1860 - 536 pages
...Buddhism expounded their doctrines, seems to have been rather the spoken language of the people in Upper India, than a form of speech peculiar to a class of religionists, or a sacred language, and its use in the edicts of Piyadasi, although not incompatible with their Buddhist... | |
 | Brahmanism - 1860 - 554 pages
...Buddhism expounded their doctrines, seems to have been rather the spoken language of the people in Upper India, than a form of speech peculiar to a class of religionists, or a sacred language, and its use in the edicts of Piyadasi, although not incompatible with their Buddhist... | |
 | Edward Balfour - India - 1873 - 1030 pages
...Christ. Professor Wilson admits that the Pali was moet likely selected for his edicts by Priyadasi "that they might be intelligible to the people," but he...the inhabitants of upper India than a form of speech po culiar to a class of religionists ; and he argues that the use of the Pali language in the inscription... | |
 | Edward Balfour - India - 1873 - 1038 pages
...Christ. Professor Wilson admits that the Pali was most likely selected for his edicts by Priyadasi "that they might be intelligible to the people," but he...is of opinion that the language of the inscriptions waa rather the common tongue of the inhabitants of upper India than a form of speech peculiar to a... | |
 | Aśoka (King of Magadha) - Inscriptions - 1877 - 246 pages
...Buddhism expounded their doctrines, seems to have been rather the spoken language of the people in Upper India than a form of speech peculiar to a class of religionists, or a sacred language, and its use in the edicts of Piyadasi, although not incompatible with their Bud»... | |
 | Inscriptions - 1879 - 244 pages
...Buddhism expounded their doctrines, seems to have been rather the spoken language of the people in Upper India than a form of speech peculiar to a class of religionists, or a sacred language, and its use in the edicts of Piyadasi, although not incompatible with their Buddhist... | |
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Professor Wilson admits that the Pali was most likely selected for his edicts by Priyadasi, ' that they might be intelligible to the people,' but he is of opinion that the language of the inscriptions was rather the common tongue of the inhabitants of... 
