Zend Avesta Part 03

SR No.: 007673
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: L H Mills
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1887
Total Pages: 2618
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 49 MB

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THE QUESTIONS OF KING MILINDA.
II, 1, 3.
Most wonderful again, and strange, Nagasena. Well has the question put to you, most difficult though it was, been solved !!
3. The king said: 'Reverend Sir, will you discuss with me again ?'
If your Majesty will discuss as a scholar (pandit), well; but if you will discuss as a king, no.' 'How is it then that scholars discuss ?''
When scholars talk a matter over one with another then is there a winding up ?, an unravelling ; one or other is convicted of error, and he then acknowledges his mistake; [29] distinctions are drawn, and contra-distinctions 3; and yet thereby they are not angered. Thus do scholars, O king, discuss.'
And how do kings discuss ?'.
When a king, your Majesty, discusses a matter, and he advances a point, if any one differ from him on that point, he is apt to fine him, saying: “Inflict such and such a punishment upon that fellow !" Thus, your Majesty, do kings discuss'
Very well. It is as a scholar, not as a king, that I will discuss. Let your reverence talk unrestrainedly, as you would with a brother, or a novice, or a lay disciple, or even with a servant. Be not afraid !'
1 Âvethanam; not in Childers, but see Gâtaka II, 9; IV, 383, 384; and Morris in the 'Journal of the Pali Text Society,' 1887.
Niggâho karîyati, as for instance below, p. 142. s Pativiseso; not in Childers, but see again Gâtaka II, 9.
• Hardy, loc. cit. § 5, puts all this into the mouths of the priests.'
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