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THE QUESTIONS OF KING MILINDA.
II, 2, 3.
stored-up grain, or dispose of it in barter, or deal with it as he had need. Would the farmer be aware, great king, that his granary was not getting filled ?'
"Yes, he ought to know it.' 'But how ?'
He would know that the cause, proximate and remote, of the filling of the granary had ceased.'
Just so with the man you spoke of. By the cessation of all that leads to rebirth, he would be conscious of having escaped his liability to it.'
Well explained, Nagasena!'
3! The king said: "He who has intelligence, Nagasena, has he also wisdom ? ?'
Yes, great king.' [42] What; are they both the same?' · Yes.'
•Then would he, with his intelligence - which, you say, is the same as wisdom-be still in bewilderment or not?'
'In regard to some things, yes; in regard to others, no.'
What would he be in bewilderment about?'
He would still be in bewilderment as to those parts of learning he had not learnt, as to those countries he had not seen, and as to those names or terms he had not heard.'
And wherein would he not be in bewilderment ?' “As regards that which has been accomplished by insight-(the perception, that is,) of the imper
1 Summarised in Hardy's · Manual,' p. 414. . Ñana and paññà.
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