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Ksatriya Clans in Buddhist India

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	Publisher: Ajay Book Service
	Author B. C. Law
	Language: English
	Pages: 228
	Cover: PAPERBACK
	6x8.5 inch
	Weight 410 gm
	Edition: 2005
	ISBN: 8187077557
	HCB805

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About the Book This study, basically a monograph on Ksatriya clans in Buddhist India prepared by Bimala Charan Law. has already proved to be promising on the basis of his authentic work as a research scholar. The study is divided into two parts. The first one deals with the Licchavis, and the second is devoted to the Videhas, the Mallas, the Sakyas, and other minor clans. As is well known, there is no systematic account available is no systematic account available in early Pali books on the political conditions of Northern India during the lifetime of Lord Buddha. A picture of Buddhist society can consequently be visualized once a systematic account is drawn up from scattered references out of a vast historical, philosophical, and socio-religious literature alone. This is, in fact, a comprehensive and exhaustive work on all the Ksatriya clans, which flourished during Buddhist and post-Buddhist eras.

Foreword I have read with great interest the monograph on Ksatriya clans in Buddhist India prepared by Mr. Bimala Charan Law, a distinguished graduate of our University, who has already given promise of solid work as a research student. The work is divided into two parts; the first deals with the Licchavis, and the second is devoted to the Videhas, the Mallas, the Shakyas and the minor clans. As is well-known, there is no systematic account in the early Pali books of the political conditions of Northern India during the lifetime of the Buddha. A picture of society in Buddhistic times can consequently be visualized only after a systematic account has been drawn up from scattered references in a vast historical, philosophical, and socio-religious literature. From this point of view, the undertaking of Mr. Law is of special importance. He has not contented himself with an outline of the political history of those times but has treated as well of manners and customs, of religion and philosophy, and of the judicial and administrative machinery. Mr. Law does not profess to have investigated the history of all the republics actually mentioned by name in the oldest Pāli records, as also those discoverable from the writings of the Greeks who visited India; many of those tribes, as we know, have not yet been identified, but a fairly accurate idea may be formed of their activities and their judicial and administrative functions. We trust Mr. Law will continue his investigations and ultimately give us a complete history of all the Kshatriya clans which flourished in Buddhistic and post-Buddhistic times.

Preface The present treatise attempts a connected history of some of the Ksatriva clans in ancient India in the time of the Buddha, viz., the Licchavis, the Videhas, the Mallas, the Shakayas, and some minor clans. This part of the history of India has up to now received very scant attention from historians. Dr Rhys Davids in his Buddhist India simply mentions these clans. The Hinayana Buddhist literature contains a good many reference to the important clans under review, while the Mahayana Buddhist literature is very poor in this respect. So far as the minor clans are concerned, the northern Buddhist literature is silent, while the southern Buddhist literature records a very meagre account of them. Sanskrit literature is of no great help to us. I have consulted the Tibetan literature as well as the works of English, French and German authors. In translating the texts, I have tried to be as much literal as possible, and I have retained the translators' language in making use of the English translations.

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