Buddhism is not an adequate rendering of them any more than Christianity would be of {to euaggelion Xristou}.

The Fa or Law is the equivalent of dharma comprehending all in the first Basket of the Buddhist teaching,--as Dr.Davids says (Hibbert Lectures, p.

44), "its ethics and philosophy, and its system of self-culture;" with the theory of karma, it seems to me, especially underlying it.

It has been pointed out (Cunningham's "Bhilsa Topes," p.

102) that dharma is the keystone of all king Priyadarsi or Asoka's edicts.