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to light, the arguments of the adversaries have been broken down, insight has been awakened in the sons of the Conqueror.'
SCHISM.
[Here ends the dilemma as to the Buddha and his following.]
[SCHISM.]
31. 'Venerable Nâgasena, your people say: "The Tathagata is a person whose following can never be broken up." And again they say: "At one stroke Devadatta seduced five hundred of the brethren "." If the first be true the second is false, but if the second be correct then the first is wrong. [161] This too is a double-pointed problem, profound, hard to unravel, more knotty than a knot. By it these people are veiled, obstructed, hindered, shut in, and enveloped. Herein show your skill as against the arguments of the adversaries.'
32. 'Both statements, O king, are correct. But the latter is owing to the power of the breach maker. Where there is one to make the breach, a mother will be separated from her son, and the son will break with the mother, or the father with the son and the son with the father, or the brother from the sister and the sister from the brother, or friend from friend. A ship pieced together with timber of all sorts is broken up by the force of the violence of the waves, and a tree in full bearing and full of sap is broken down by the force of the violence of the wind, and gold of the finest sort is divided by
1 Neither of these phrases is to be found in the published texts in these words. But the latter sums up the episode related in the Kullavagga VII, 4, 1.
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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 |