Note 59 — Chapter III · STUPAS.
Reading edition
Turnour in ‘Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal,’ vol. vii., p. 1013.
The fame of this distribution seems to have reached Europe at least as early as the 1st century of the Christian Era, inasmuch as Plutarch (‘Moralia,’ p. 1002, Dübner edition, Paris, 1841) describes a similar partition of the remains of Menander, among eight cities who are said to have desired to possess his remains; but as he does not hint that it was for purposes of worship, the significance of the fact does not seem to have been appreciated.