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THE QUESTIONS OF KING MILINDA.
III, 7, 10.
who can go with this bodily frame to Uttara-kuru or to the Brahma world, or to any other of the four great continents (into which the world is divided)?' Yes, there are such people.'
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'But how can they?' [85]
'Do you recollect, O king, having ever jumped a foot or two feet across the ground?'
'Yes, Nâgasena, I can jump twelve feet.'
'But how?'
'I fix my mind on the idea of alighting there, and at the moment of my determination my body comes to seem light to me.'
'Just so, O king, can the Bhikkhu, who has the power of Iddhi, and has the mastery over his mind, when he has made his mind rise up to the occasion, travel through the sky by means of his mind.'
'Very good, Nâgasena !'
10. The king said: 'Your people say there are bones even a hundred leagues long. Now there is no tree even one hundred leagues in length, how then can there be bones so long?'
'But tell me, O king. Have you not heard of fishes in the sea five hundred leagues in length?'
'Yes. I have heard of such.'
'If so, could they not have bones a hundred leagues long?'
'Very good, Nagasena!'
11. The king said: 'Your people, Nâgasena, say that it is possible to suppress the inhaling and exhaling (of one's breath).'
Yes, that can be done.'
'But how?'
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