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Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms

CHAPTER XXXI
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166-168; "The Life of the Buddha," p.

30; and the "Buddhist Birth Stories," pp.

91, 92; but the name of the ministering girl or girls is different.

I take Gramika from a note in Beal's revised version; it seems to me a happy solution of the difficulty caused by the {.} {.} of Fa-Hsien.
(4) Called "the tree of leaves," and "the tree of reflection;" a palm tree, the _borassus flabellifera_, described as a tree which never loses its leaves.

It is often confounded with the pippala.


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