Bodhisatta, was conceived then and there. Feeling as heavy within as though weighed down with the bolt of Indra, the woman knew that she would become a mother, and told the king so. He gave her the signet-ring from his finger and dismissed her with these words : — -"If it be a girl, spend this ring on her nurture ; but if it be a boy, bring ring and child to me.

The law of things is that they who tamper with veracity, from whatever motive, are tampering with the vital force of human progress. Our comfort and the delight of the religious imagination are no better than forms of selfindulgence, when they are secured at the cost of that love of truth on which, more than on anything else, the increase of light and happiness among men must depend.

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Page 33 Men will not come for the sake of the new faith. Let them come for their old gods and gradually they will be won over. Appears in 16 books from 1925-2000

Page xx In the years 1186 and 87, the Kula-pyu, or white strangers of the west, fastened a quarrel upon the Lord of the Golden Palace. They landed at Rangoon, took that place and Prome, and were permitted to advance as far as Yandabo ; for the king, from motives of piety and regard to life, made no effort whatever to oppose them. The strangers had spent vast sums of money in their enterprise ; and by the time they reached Yandabo, their resources were exhausted, and they were in great distress. Appears in 62 books from 1809-2001

Page 341 - ... carefully sifted the various accounts accessible to him, and exercised a painstaking selection in those communicated to him by the travellers, native and Portuguese, he met at Goa. He speaks of deriving his information not only "by the daily trafficking of the Portingalles out of India,' but also from the Peguans themselves, "whereof many dwell in India, some of them being Christians. Appears in 10 books from 1890-2000

Page 176 - He hath not any army or power by sea, but in the land, for people, dominions, gold, and silver, he far exceeds the power of the Great Turk in treasure and strength. Appears in 20 books from 1860-2007

Page 12 They greet each other by clasping the arm with the hand. They know how to make astronomical calculations. They are Buddhists, and have a hundred monasteries, with bricks of glassware embellished with gold and silver vermilion, gay colours, and red kino. The floor is painted, and is covered with ornamented carpets. The king's residence is in like style. At seven years of age the people cut their hair and enter a monastery; if at the age of twenty they have not grasped the doctrine they return to lay... Appears in 12 books from 1909-2000

Page 12 The ruins consisting of earthen ramparts, walled enclosures, burial grounds, stone sculptures, and pagodas in all stages of decay, are found scattered within, roughly speaking, an area of 400 square miles, that is to say, within a distance of about 10 miles in the direction of the cardinal points from the Railway Station as the centre. Appears in 7 books from 1908-2000

Page 66 - But their Captain acted like a wise leader who had considered everything beforehand. He immediately gave orders that every man should dismount and tie his horse to the trees of the forest that stood hard by, and that then they should take to their bows, a weapon that they know how to handle better than any troops in the world. They did as he bade them, and plied their bows stoutly, shooting so many shafts at the advancing elephants that in a short space they had wounded or slain the greater part... Appears in 6 books from 1876-2003

Page 42 King Kyanzittha gathered together gems of divers kinds and sent them in a ship to build up the holy temple at BuddhaGaya, and to offer lights which should burn for ever there. Thereafter king Kyanzittha builded anew, making them finer than before, the great buildings of king Asoka, for they were old and in ruins. Appears in 10 books from 1944-2000

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