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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 March 2011
Ever since the exact site of Aśoka's classic capital was determined for us by the keenness and sagacity of Colonel Waddell, it has been a dream of the Government of India in the Archæological Department to subject the site of Pāṭaliputra to an examination commensurate with its importance. Colonel Waddell had, however, so abundantly demonstrated, in his trial excavations, the difficulty and costliness of extended operations here, that the dream had, until recently, appeared remote of realization. The munificence of Mr. Ratan Tata of Bombay has made the undertaking possible, and his offer of twenty thousand rupees a year, for an indefinite number of years, has enabled the Archæological Department to take up the work on a scale that would otherwise have been far beyond our resources.
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page 70 note 2 Cf. Grünwedel, , Buddhistische Kunst in Indien (1st ed., Berlin, 1893), 17Google Scholar; Grünwedel, & Burgess, , Buddhist Art in India, p. 17.Google Scholar
page 71 note 1 According to Fergusson the most Persepolitan of all Indian capitals are those in the comparatively late caves of Bedsa; cf. Indian and Eastern Architecture, 2nd ed., vol. i, p. 138.Google Scholar
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page 74 note 1 Legge, , Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms, trans., p. 77.Google Scholar
page 74 note 2 Dictionary numbers 6099 and 7354.
page 74 note 3 Cf. the Lion Frieze and the Frieze of Archers pictured by Perrot and Chipiez against p. 420 of their History of Art in Persia, English trans.
page 75 note 1 Kyōto, edition, vol. ii, book viii, p. 10Google Scholar, last line; Beal, , Buddhist Records, etc., vol. ii, p. 95.Google Scholar
page 76 note 1 Watters' rendering of 
, ku kung, by “old city” seems to me indefensible.
page 78 note 1 As regards Weber's “Vermuthung” that the Asura Maya is to be identified with Ptolemaios, all I need say is that the suggestion seems to me wholly unsupported. But Weber's remark, “dass wir unter Dânavâs und Asurâs häufig genug fremde Völker zu verstehen haben,” and his contention that Maya was originally of foreign origin are both alike serviceable for my own argument. Cf. Ind. Stud. ii, 243Google Scholar, and Akad. Vorlesungen über Ind. Literaturgeschichte, p. 225.Google Scholar
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page 84 note 1 M.Bh. ii, 1. 24.
page 85 note 1 Since writing the above I find that Böhtlingk on p. 1022 of his Dictionary, vol. v, among the addenda to 
, records abhiprāya, in the sense of “Erscheinung, Phantom”, with reference to M.Bh. 13. 2827, tatra divyān abhiprāyān dadarśa, which is gratifying confirmation of my views.
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