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composing humanity also should lay this message to their hearts. Otherwise there is no
hope for humanity and no prospect for the peace of the world. We find that the same
memorable message inscribed in enduring rock in the Heliodorus Column erected at Besnagar,
a place 30 miles north-east ,of Bhopal. This granite pillar was erected, as found in the
inscription, by Heliodorus, a Greek, who calls himself a Bhagavata, sent as messenger by
Antialkidas of Syria. The last portion is in
Prakrit: trini amrtapadani (Su)-anuttitani, nayanti svaga dama chaga apramada. These three
are the same as found in Sanatasujatiya of theMahabharata: Self-control,
renunciation and faultless- ness, these three are the foundations of immortality. By their
clear analysis of the fundamental aspirations of the human heart and by the enunciation of
the high ideals which man should possess and for which he should work as a unit of society
and as a citizen of the world, Indian thinkers have made a unique contribution to the
thought of mankind.
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