"Sudra" Quotes from Famous Books
... Amitabha in the land of Dhingkota and died with his face turned towards Sukhavati. I have found no explanation of the name Dhingkota but the name Saraha does not sound Indian. He is said to have been a sudra and he is represented in Tibetan pictures with a beard and topknot and holding an arrow[545] in his hand. In all this there is little that can be called history, but still it appears that the first person whom tradition connects ... — Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 (of 3) • Charles Eliot |