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Even in India there are but few places so rich in historical memories as Patna. Beneath the soil watered by the blood of Mir Kasim’s victims, lie the ruins of the ancient Buddhist capital, Pataliputra, the greatness of which had been foretold by Buddha a few months before his death .
Walter Kelly Firminger, ed.(1909) in The Diaries of Three Surgeons of Patna - 1763, The Calcutta Historical Society | ||
