According to the Matsya Purana, Shatarupa was known by different names, including Satarupa, Sarasvati, Sandhya, or Brahmi.

According to South Indian legend Rishabha explained and taught the script to his daughters Brahmi and Saundari.

According to the Pali Canon, both pluralism ( naanatta ) and monism ( ekatta ) are speculative views.

According to discourses found in both the Theravada school's Pali canon, and some of the Āgamas in the Chinese Buddhist canon, the Noble Eightfold Path was rediscovered by Gautama Buddha during his quest for enlightenment.

According to the discourses in the Pali and Chinese canons, right view, right intention, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, and right mindfulness are used as the support and requisite conditions for the practice of right concentration.

According to the Pali Texts, the Buddha ate meat long as the animal was not killed specifically for Him.

According to early Buddhist scripture, the Buddha refused to answer certain questions regarding metaphysical propositions, known as the fourteen unanswerable questions ( the Pali Canon only gives ten ).

According to the Pali canon:

According to the Buddha the path to liberation is one of progressively coming out of delusion ( Pali: Moha ).

According to tradition, Menander embraced the Buddhist faith, as described in the Milinda Panha, a classical Pali Buddhist text on the discussions between Milinda and the Buddhist sage Nāgasena.

* 29 BCE: According to the Sinhalese chronicles, the Pali Canon is written down in the reign of King ( 29 – 17 BCE )

According to Thai history, Ramkhamhaeng is traditionally credited with developing the Thai alphabet ( Lai Sue Thai ) from Sanskrit, Pali and Grantha script.

According to a legend preserved in Pali, the language of the Theravada canon, two merchant brothers from Bactria, named Tapassu and Bhallika, visited the Buddha and became his disciples.

According to the Pali Buddhist text Milinda Pañha King Milinda is said to have reigned from the city around 100 BC.

According to Bhikkhu Bodhi, the post-canonical Pali commentary uses the three terms viññāa, mano and citta as synonyms for the mind sense base ( mana-ayatana ); however, in the Sutta Pitaka, these three terms are generally contextualized differently:

According to the Mahavamsa – a historical poem written in the Pali language, of the kings of Sri Lanka – King Vijaya ( 543 – 505 BC ) married a Pandyan Princess.

According to the Pali Canon the gods have powers to affect only so far as their realm of influence or control allows them.

According to the Pali Canon, omnipotence cannot be ascribed to any being.

According to the Pali Canon, Sariputta died peacefully on the full moon day of the Kartika month of the ancient Indian calendar, a few months before the Buddha, having achieved Parinibbana, and when Sariputta's assistant, Cunda, gave the news to Ananda, Ananda was very distressed.

According to the Ghata Jataka, Vasudeva, Baladeva and eight other Andhaka-Venhu ( probably, a corrupt form of Andhaka-Venhi, Pali equivalent to Sanskrit Andhaka-Vrishni ) brothers seized Dvaravati and killed its king Kamsa.

According to the Mahavamsa, a Pali Chronicle of the fifth century Ceylon, the Emperor Asoka sent two Buddhist Monks, Sona and Uttara, to Suvannabhumi.

According to some of these sources, the Koh-i-Noor was originally found more than 5000 years ago, and is mentioned in ancient Sanskrit writings under the name Syamantaka.

According to the dictionary of Monier Monier-Williams, the most frequent meanings of the Sanskrit term, from which the word " prakrit " is derived, are " original, natural, normal " and the term is derived from, " making or placing before or at first, the original or natural form or condition of anything, original or primary substance ".

According to Yaska, Sanskrit scholar of the 5th century BCE, who made various attempts to interpret difficult Vedic mythologies in his work Nirukta ( Etymology ) ( 12, 12 ), the time of Savitr ’ s appearance is when darkness has been removed.

According to one Nyingma tradition, the first master of the Buddhist Dzogchen lineage in our world was Garab Dorje ( Wylie: dga ' rab rdo rje, Sanskrit * prahevajra ) from Uddiyana ( Wylie:.

According to the Blue Annals, new king of the Western Tibetan kingdom of Guge by the name of Lha Lama Yeshe Yod, however, was a strict believer in Dharma and so sent his academic followers to learn and translate some of the Sanskrit Buddhist texts.

According to Jamgon Kongtrul, when Atiśa discovered the store of Sanskrit texts at Pekar Kordzoling, the library of Samye, " he said that the degree to which the Vajrayana had spread in Tibet was unparalleled, even in India.

According to another theory propounded by Damodar Dharmanand Kosambi, Takṣaśilā is related to Takṣaka, Sanskrit for " carpenter ", and is an alternative name for the Nāgas of ancient India.

According to three particular sutras Amitabha vowed to ensure that anyone who chanted his name would be reborn in his Pure Land of Sukhavati ( Sanskrit, lit.

According to Kōkei, Benzaiten is the third daughter of the dragon-king of Munetsuchi ( 無熱池 ; literally " lake without heat "), known in Sanskrit as Anavatapta, the lake lying at the center of the world according to an ancient Buddhist cosmological view.

According to Matysa Purana, they are said to narrate five subjects, called Pancha Lakshana ( Sanskrit :) (" five distinguishing marks ", though some scholars have suggested that these are shared by other traditional religious scriptures ):

According to this model, Rigvedic Sanskrit within the larger Indo-Aryan group is the direct ancestor of the Dardic languages.

According to the Monier Williams Sanskrit – English Dictionary ( 1899 ), Surabhi means fragrant, charming, pleasing, as well as cow and earth.

According to folk etymology, the name " Kashmir " means " desiccated land " ( from the Sanskrit: Ka

According to some academicians, the name Gupta is derived from Sanskrit goptri, meaning military governor.

According to Sir William Jones, " Meros is said by the Greeks to have been a mountain in India, on which their Dionysos was born, and that Meru, though it generally means the north pole in Indian geography, is also a mountain near the city of Naishada or Nysa, called by the Greek geographers Dionysopolis, and universally celebrated in the Sanskrit poems ".

According to the philosophical system of trikaya or three bodies of Buddha, nirmanakaya is the Buddha's " body " in the sense of the bodymind ( Sanskrit: nāmarūpa ).

According to this view, Vahiguru is a compound of two words, one from Persian and the other from Sanskrit, joined in a symbiotic relationship to define the indefinable indescribable Ultimate Reality.

According to Bhagavad-Gītā As It Is, " prāṇāyāma " is translated to " trance induced by stopping all breathing ", also being made from the two separate Sanskrit words, " prāṇa " and " āyāma ".

According to the Swayambhu Purana, Manjusri then established a city called Manjupattan ( Sanskrit " Land Established by Manjusri "), now called Manjipā, and made Dharmākara its king.

* According to D. Pingree, he presents the only Sanskrit treatise on geometrical optics. D Pingree, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography ( New York 1970-1990 )

According to Chuon Nath's renowned Khmer dictionary, the ' pinpeat ' is composed of the Sanskrit terms vina () referring to a chapey which was formerly used as the premiere instrument in this ensemble and vadya () referring to an ensemble of instruments.

According to ancient Sanskrit writings, the Brahmastra is invoked by a key phrase or invocation that is bestowed upon the user when given this weapon.

According to folk etymology, the name " Kashmir " means " desiccated land " ( from the Sanskrit: Ka