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PT. II. SECT. X.
THE WRITINGS OF KWANG-BZE.
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12. Hui-zze being a minister of state in Liang, Kwang-zze went to see him. Some one had told Hui-zze that Kwang-zze was come with a wish to supersede him in his office, on which he was afraid, and instituted a search for the stranger all over the kingdom for three days and three nights. (After this) Kwang-zze went and saw him, and said, 'There is in the south a bird, called “the Young Phoenix ?;" -do you know it? Starting from the South Sea, it flies to the Northern; never resting but on the bignonia?, never eating but the fruit of the melia azederach 4, and never drinking but from the purest springs. An owl, which had got a putrid rat, (once), when a phoenix went passing overhead, looked up to it and gave an angry scream. Do you wish now, in your possession of the kingdom of Liang, to frighten me with a similar scream ??
13. Kwang-zze and Hui-zze were walking on the dam over the Hâo 5, when the former said, *These thryssas come out, and play about at their ease ;—that is the enjoyment of fishes.' The other said, 'You are not a fish ; how do you know what
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Another name for Wei, so called from its capital ;—in the present department of Khâi-făng.
2 So the critics explain the name. Williams thinks the bird may be 'the argus pheasant,' or a variety of the peacock.' But what the bird was does not affect the meaning of our author's reference to it.
8 One of the Eleococcae, the Dryandra Cordifolia of Thunberg.
• All the editions I have seen given here, which makes no sense. The character should doubtless be to, with the meaning which I have given; and not bamboo,' which is found in the critics. It is also called the Pride of India.'
5 A river in the department and district of Fung-yang, An-hui.
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| SR No. | 007682 |
| Book Title | Questions of King Milinda Part 02 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | T W Rhys Davids |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1894 |
| Total Pages | 2240 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 38 MB |