I am spinning my wheels trying to date those Pali Canon texts. I want a database where I enter a book and verse and it spits out a date
I’m not an expert but what reading I’ve done on this suggests very little is known.
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we think cities mentioned did not exist before ca 7th C. Asoka def mid-3rd C not mentioned. Gives range.
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Assumes Bauddha would have mentioned Asoka if they knew about him. C.f. asoka-avadana.
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