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________________ 106 THE QUESTIONS OF KING MILINDA. III, 4, 5. of Karma that beings in purgatory, though they burn for thousands of years, yet are they not destroyed. If they are reborn there, there do they grow up, and there do they die. For this, O king, has been declared by the Blessed One: "He does not die until that evil Karma is exhausted.”' Very good, Nagasena !' 5. The king said : Venerable Nâgasena, your people say that the world rests on water, the water on air, the air on space'. This saying also I cannot believe. Then the Elder brought water in a regulation water-pot?, and convinced king Milinda, saying : *As this water is supported by the atmosphere, so is that water supported by air.' Very good, Nâgasena!' 6. The king said : ‘Is cessation Nirvana 3?' Yes, your Majesty' (69). How is that, Nagasena ?' *All foolish individuals, O king, take pleasure in · This is not a distinctively Buddhist belief. It was commonly held at the time by other teachers. Compare . Book of the Great Decease,' III, 13 in Buddhist Suttas,' Sacred Books of the East, vol. xi, p. 45). * Dhamma-karakena. The passages show that this was a pot so made, that no water could pass from it except through a filtering medium. When not being actually used the water was no doubt kept at a certain height in it by the pressure of the atmosphere. I do not know of any specimen preserved in our modern museums or figured on ancient bas-reliefs, and the exact shape is unknown. It must be different from the one represented in plate xlviii of Cunningham's Bhilsa Tope.' See Kullavagga V, 13, 1 (note); VI, 21, 3 ; XII, 2, 1; Mahavamsa, p. 60. "Nirodho nibbanan ti. Diglized by Google
SR No.007673
Book TitleZend Avesta Part 03
Original Sutra AuthorN/A
AuthorL H Mills
PublisherOxford
Publication Year1887
Total Pages2618
LanguageEnglish
ClassificationBook_English
File Size49 MB
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