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Excerpt from Hinduism and Buddhism, Vol. 3 of 3: An Historical Sketch
In any case the records declare that the Indian Emperor showed the greatest solicitude for the spiritual welfare of Ceylon and, though they are obviously embellished, there is no reason to doubt their substantial accuracy1. The Sinhalese tradition agrees on the whole with the data supplied by Indian inscrip tions and Chinese pilgrims. The names of missionaries mentioned in the Dipa and Mahavamsas recur on urns found at Sanchi and on its gateways are pictures in relief which appear to represent the transfer of a branch of the Bo-tree in solemn pro cession to Some destination which, though unnamed, may be conjectured to be Ceylonz. The absence of Mahinda's name in Asoka's inscriptions is certainly suspicious, but the Sinhalese chronicles give the names of other missionaries correctly and a mere argumentum ex silentio cannot disprove their testimony on this important point.
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