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lead is laid down. He kicks it off with his foot, with (Våg. S. X, 14), 'Kicked off is Namuki's head!' Now there was once an Asura, Namuki by name. Indra knocked him down, and trod with his foot upon him. And in that he, thus trodden upon, bulged out, that is the origin of) a rupture. He tore off his head with his foot, and therefrom sprang a goblin (Rakshas). That one kept calling out to him, 'Whither art thou going? Where wilt thou rid thyself of me?'
10. He beat it off with a disk of) lead: hence lead is soft; for it has lost its spring, as it beat off (the goblin) with all its might. Hence also, while being like gold, it is not worth anything ; for it has lost its spring, as it beat off (the goblin) with all its might. And so, indeed, he (Indra) thereby beat off the fiends, the Rakshas; and in like manner this one (the king) thereby beats off the fiends, the Rakshas.
11. He then makes him step upon the tiger's skin, with (Vâg. S. X, 15), «Thou art Soma's beauty;'-For because when Soma flowed through Indra, he (Indra) thereupon became a tiger, and therefore he is Soma's beauty: this is why he says, • Thou art Soma's beauty ;'- May my beauty be like unto thine!'—The tiger's beauty he thereby bestows upon him : therefore he says, "May my beauty be like unto thine!'
12. Below (the king's foot) he throws a (small) gold plate, with, Save (him) from death!'-Gold is immortal life: he thus takes his stand on immortal life.
13. Then there is (another) gold plate, perforated either with a hundred, or with nine, holes. If with
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| SR No. | 007681 |
| Book Title | Questions of King Milinda Part 01 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | T W Rhys Davids |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1890 |
| Total Pages | 2695 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 47 MB |