bhida

Updated: June 27, 2025

They supplied them with what they needed, and treated them in accordance with the rules of the Law. Bhida. Eitel says, "The present Punjab;" i.e. it was a portion of that. "To come forth from their families;" that is, to become celibates, and adopt the tonsure.

Faxian - A Record of Buddhistic kingdoms: being an account by the Chinese monk Fa-hsien of travels in India and Ceylon (A.D. 399-414) in search of the Buddhist books of discipline