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(in me) for sexual intercourse. What is this (thy daughter's body but a thing) full of water and excrement? I do not even want to touch it with my foot.'
(835) 2. Magandiya : 'If thou dost not want such a pearl, a woman desired by many kings, what view, virtue, and (holy) works, (mode of) life, re-birth dost thou profess?'
(836) 3. ““ This I say,” so (I do now declare), after investigation there is nothing amongst the doctrines which such a one (as I would) embrace,'—O Mâgandiya, so said Bhagavat,—and seeing (misery) in the (philosophical) views, without adopting (any of them), searching (for truth) I saw“ inward peace?.”' (837)
4. ‘All the (philosophical) resolutions that have been formed,'—so said Mâgandiya,—those indeed thou explainest without adopting (any of them); the notion “inward peace" which (thou mentionest), how is this explained by the wise?'
(838) 5. 'Not by (any philosophical) opinion, not by tradition, not by knowledge,'-O Mâgandiya, so said Bhagavat, -'not by virtue and (holy) works can any one say that purity exists; nor by absence of (philosophical) opinion, by absence of tradition, by absence of knowledge, by absence of virtue and (holy) works either; having abandoned these without adopting (anything else), let him, calm and independent, not desire existence 3.
(839) 1 Idam vadâmîti na tassa hoti-Mâgandiyâ ti Bhagavâ—
Dhammesu nikkheyya samuggahîtam Passañ ka ditthísu anuggahấya
Agghattasantim pakinam adassam. · Vinikkhaya, placita? * Na ditthiyâ na sutiyâ na hânena–Magandiya ti Bhagava—
Sîlabbatenâpi na suddhim aha
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| SR No. | 007674 |
| Book Title | Dhammapada |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Max Muller |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1881 |
| Total Pages | 2540 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 45 MB |