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Indica by L.D. Barnett - 8. Memoirs of the Archæological Survey of India. No. 30: The Beginnings of Art in Eastern India, with special reference to Sculptures in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. By Ramaprasad Chanda M.A., F.A.S.B., Rai Bahadur. No. 32: Fragment of a Prajnaparamita Manuscript from Central Asia. By Pandit B. B. Bidyabinod. 13 × 10 in., pp. 54, 7 plates, pp. 12 + i, 4 plates. Calcutta: Government of India Central Publication Branch, 1927.

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L. D. Barnett
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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 60 , Issue 4 , October 1928 , pp. 940 - 942
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1 The Rai Bahadur thinks (pp. 21 ff., 33) that Aśōka refers to the construction of such divine figures when in his Minor Rock-inscriptions he says that “the gods who previously did not mingle [with men] in Jambūdvīpa have now been made to mingle”. This seems unlikely. Aśōka speaks of the mingling of gods with men as a result of his propagation of the Faith, whereas some, perhaps many, of these divine figures, as our author admits, were constructed before his reign; and moreover it is hardly usual to apply the term dēva to animals such as bulls and lions. Aśōka, I suspect, refers in this connexion to the common belief that various gods are incarnated in the person of a righteous king, and means that the rulers of India—himself and his governors—have now become “godly”, literally inspired by deities.