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THE QUESTIONS
OF
KING MILINDA.
REVERENCE BE TO THE BLESSED ONE, THE
ARAHAT, THE SAMMA-SAMBUDDHA.
BOOK I.
THE SECULAR NARRATIVE !. 1. King Milinda, at Sagala the famous town of yore,
To Nagasena, the world famous sage, repaired. (So the deep Ganges to the deeper ocean flows.) To him, the eloquent, the bearer of the torch Of Truth, dispeller of the darkness of men's minds, Subtle and knotty questions did he put, many, Turning on many points. Then were solutions
given Profound in meaning, gaining access to the heart, Sweet to the ear, and passing wonderful and
strange. For Nagasena's talk plunged to the hidden
depths Of Vinaya and of Abhidhamma (Law and
Thought)
· Bâhira-kathâ, literally 'outside talk;' so called in contradistinction to the religious character of the subjects treated of in the remaining books.
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