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V. Notes on the Edicts of Aśoka

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

Extract

In recurring, briefly, to the consideration of this expression we may take with us the fact that in the Sārnāth inscription the verb vivāsāy- has been shown to bear the meaning “cause to dwell away”, to dwell, that is, in a place which is anāvāsa, “not a residence,” in the particular case “not a residence of a community of monks”.

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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1916

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