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As I read the Buddha-karita (attributed to Asvaghosha) again in connection with my class on South Asian Civilizations, I cannot help but wonder what it would have been like if our only accounts of the birth of Jesus had been stories from centuries later, such as are found in the apocryphal infancy gospels (e.g. the Infancy Gospel of Thomas).
Archive 2007-09-01 James F. McGrath 2007
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The most interesting is the karita, or butter-tree, from the nuts of which a vegetable butter is extracted with all the delectable flavour of chocolate.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure Various 1909
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