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Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms

CHAPTER XXII
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In his revised version he gives for it, I cannot say happily, "As well as at the pool, the water of which came down from above for washing (the child)." (20) See chap.

xvii, note 8.

See also Davids' Manual, p.45.

The latter says, that "to turn the wheel of the Law" means "to set rolling the royal chariot wheel of a universal empire of truth and righteousness;" but he admits that this is more grandiloquent than the phraseology was in the ears of Buddhists.

I prefer the words quoted from Eitel in the note referred to.


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