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- ↑ "The reference to Ashoka in it is unimpeachable. Ashoka in Rajatarangini is Gonandiya Ashoka and cannot by any means be Ashoka Maurya Even V.A. Smith admits that Kalhana's work is a reliable history." He writes: "The Sanskrit book which comes nearest to the European notion of regular history is Rajatarangini of Kalhana the metrical chronicle of Kashmir written in the twelfth century by the son of a minister of the Raja" in Kulkarni, Shripad Dattatraya (1994). Glorious Epoch: Svayambhuva Manu to Shakari Shalivahan, 29000 B.C to 135 A.D. Shri Bhagavan Vedavyasa Itihas Samshodhana Mandir (BHISHMA). p. 201. ISBN 978-81-900272-4-3.
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- ↑ Bechert, Heinz (1995). When Did the Buddha Live?: The Controversy on the Dating of the Historical Buddha. Sri Satguru Publications. p. 48. ISBN 978-81-7030-469-2.
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