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Attitude of Buddha towards Metaphysics
24 Kathāyanthu (Deva Nagari ed.) pp. 143-47 25 Abhidharmakośa Bhäşya, ed. P.Pradhan (Patna, 1967), v 25c-d : Ye tu
kiñcid asti yat pratyutpannam adattaphalam cā 'titam karma, kincin nāsti yad dattaphalam atitänāgatam ceti vibhajya vadanti te vibhajya
vādinah. 26 Samyutta Nikaya, Ill. pp. 71-72 : Yam bhikhave, rupam atitam niru
ddham vipariņatam....na tassa sankhā 'atthi' ti, na tassa sankha ‘bhavissati' ti..... Yam, bhikkhave, rupam ajātam apātubhūtam.. na tassa sankhā 'atthi' ti 'na tassa sankhā 'ahosī' ti. Kathāvatthu, pp. 145, 146 ; Na vattabbam-'atita-avipakkavipäkadhammate atthi' ti; Na vattabbam -- anāgata-uppādino dhammā ajātā-te atthi' ti. Milinda pañha, p. 52: Ye te mahāraja sankhārā atitā vigata niruddha
vipariņatā so addhā natthi. 27 K. Venkataramanan, Sämmitiyanikāya Sāstra' in Visva-Bharati Ann
als, vol. V, pp. 135-242. 'Did the Buddha Deny the Self' in The
Philosophical Quarterly, vol. XXVIII, No. 4. 28 Majjhima Nikaya, I, pp. 265 sq. : Yato ca kho, bhikkhave, mātapita.
ro ca sannipatitā honti, māta ca utuni hoti, gandhabbo ca paccupațb
ito hoti evam tinnam sannipātā gabbhssāvakkanti. 29 Abhidharmakośa Bhäsya. ch. III, v. 10 ; Gamyadesānupetatvānnopapanno
antarābhavah.
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