Text of Confucianism Part 02

SR No.: 007676
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: James Legge
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1882
Total Pages: 2405
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 43 MB

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VI, 31, 3.
ON MEDICAMENTS.
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he, the Blessed One, must be the Arahat Buddha, since these many distinguished Likkhavis, who are sitting here together assembled in the town-hall, speak in so many ways in praise of the Buddha, of the Dhamma, and of the Samgha. What if I were to go and visit him, the Arahat Buddha.'
2. And Siha, the general, went to the place where the Nigantha Nataputta? was; having approached him, he said to the Nigantha Nataputta : 'I wish, Lord, to go and visit the Samana Gotama.
Why should you, Siha, who believe in the result of actions (according to their moral merit), go to visit the Samana Gotama, who denies the result of actions ? For the Samana Gotama, Stha, denies the result of actions; he teaches the doctrine of non-action; and in this doctrine he trains his disciples.
Then the desire to go and to visit the Blessed One, which had arisen in Siha, the general, abated in him.
3. And a second time many distinguished Likkhavis were sitting together (&c., as in g 1, 2, down to the end).
And a third time many distinguished Likkhavis were sitting together, &c. And a third time Siha, the general, thought: ‘Truly he, the Blessed One, must be the Arahat Buddha, since these many distinguished Likkhavis, who are sitting here together assembled in the town-hall, speak in so many ways
1 The founder of the Nigantha sect, who is, according to the important discovery of Professors Bühler and Jacobi, identical with the Mahavira of the Gain legends. See Jacobi's Preface to the Kalpastra, pp. I seq.
• Kiriyavada.
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