... included in the original Brhatkatha. The significant fact, however, is that in the Sanskrit versions of this work also only the name Chānakya appears, not Kautilya or Vishnugupta. "In the Buddhist literature, the story of Chānakya is found briefly in the Mahāvamsa and in detail in its Tikā. According to Burrow, 3 no trace of the name Kautilya is found in the Pali sources in connection with... "degraded kshatriyas", closely associated with another such tribe, the Kambojas. The grammarian Pānini who first mentions the Sanskrit form "Yavana" has the same suggestion in his Gana-pātha. In Buddhist literature, a border-state of Yonas is said to have existed when Buddha was born, and Buddha is also made to refer to the Yonas and Kambojas as his contemporaries. Aśoka also links the Yonas with the Kambojas ...
... who lost Vedic rites and customs and thereby became "Dasyus". The Mahābhārata (XIII. 33, 21) calls them an Indian people that became Vriśalas (degraded castes) from seeing no Brāhmanas. Buddhist literature too tells the same story, a loss of original Aryan customs leading to a barbarous state. 1 To clinch all this evidence against original foreignness, we may add Pusalker's pronouncement: 2 "The ...
... time, the subjects of study had become quite enlarged, but during the development of Buddhism, the number of subjects grew still larger. In the Buddhist schools, the emphasis came to be laid on Buddhist literature. In the Gurukulas, the programme of studies included, apart from the Vedas, the study of Vedangas, and various systems of science and philosophy.' In the time of Kautilya (fourth century, B C) ...
... tree, so Mara overwhelms the man who lives only in pursuit of pleasure, who does not control his senses, who knows not how to moderate his appetite, who is lazy and wastes his energies. In Buddhist literature, Mara represents the Spirit of Evil, all that is contrary or opposed to the spiritual life; in certain cases he represents death—not so much physical death as death to truth, to the spiritual ...
... prefixed to Aśvalāyana as we have in the case of Sānkhāyana. This probably suggests that Vedic tradition knew only of one great teacher named Aśvalāyana. It is significant that both in Vedic and Buddhist literature this famous scholar is associated with one and the same locality, viz., Kosala, modern Oudh. The Praśna Upanishad tells us that Aśvalāyana was a Kausalya, i.e., an inhabitant of Kosala ...
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