Synopsis The present work of Professor S.R. Goyal is a study of the Buddhist Triratnas, the Three Jewels of Buddhim-the Buddha, Dharmma and Sangha. But here the author has not confined himself to a life-history of the Buddha, or a description of what are usually accepted as the basic tenets of his Dharmma and an outline of the monastic Order. He has tried to go deeper into the antecedents, forces and circumstances which produced the Buddha and reconstruct an authentic history of his life. He has also tried to find out the original nature of his Gospel and the origin and early development of his Order. An interesting feature of this work is that Professor Goyal has thrown valuable light on the image of the Buddhist Sramanas as they were seen by the Greeks in the fourth century B.C., the earliest foreigners who have left a description of the Buddhist monks as they found them only about a hundred and fifty years after the Nirvana. Probably in no other work on Buddhism the Greek testimony has been so utilized. This work, therefore, is a complete and critical through succinct study of all the aspects of the earliest phase of Indian Buddhism. We, therefore, feel confident that it will be welcomed by scholars of Buddhism the world over.