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IV, 7, 11.
OF MILINDA THE KING,
IOI
Very good, Nâgasena! That is so, and I accept it as you say.'
[Here ends the dilemma as to the faults
of the Arahat.]
[DILEMMA THE SIXTY-FOURTH.
WHAT IS, BUT NOT IN THE WORLD.] 11. Venerable Nâgasena, there are to be seen in the world Buddhas, and Pakkeka-Buddhas, and disciples of the Tathagatas, and sovran overlords, and kings over one country, and gods and men ;we find rich and poor, happy and miserable ;-we find men who have become women, and women who have become men—there are good deeds and evil, and beings experiencing the result of their virtue or their vice ;—we find creatures born from eggs, and in the water, and in sediment, or springing into life by the mere apparitional birth; creatures without feet, bipeds and quadrupeds, and creatures with many feet ;-we find Yakkhas and Rakkhasas, and Kumbhandas, and Asuras, and Dânavas, and Gandhabbas, and Petas and Pisâkas, and Kinnaras, and Mahoragas, and Nâgas and Supannas', and magicians and sorcerers ;—there are elephants, and horses, and cattle, and buffaloes, and camels, and asses, and goats, and sheep, and deer, and swine, and lions, and tigers, and leopards, and bears, and wolves, and hyenas, and dogs, and jackals, and many kinds of birds ;—there is gold and silver, and the pearl, and
Fairies and goblins of various degrees and powers, most of them not mentioned in the Pitakas.
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