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of Magadʹha. In the third century the “nursing father” of Buddhism, as Constantine was of Christianity. He is called “the king beloved of the gods.”
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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