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ASOKA'S PILGRIMAGE

137 TOPE AT 8ARNATH, NEAR BENARES. About two years later, Asoka, recognizing fully the validity of the Buddhist doctrine that no layman could attain nirvana, determined to ensure his final deliver- ance from rebirth so far as possible by entering the

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