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world of gods and men know and believe that that Blessed One existed once. By this reason, on this ground, by this argument, through this inference, can it be known that the Blessed One lived. “He who, himself set free in that bless'd state In which the Upadhis have ceased to be,
-Lusts, sin, and Karma, -has brought safe ashore, Saved from the sea of woe, great multitudes Only by inference can it be known That he, the best of men, existed once?."! 4. Venerable Nâgasena, give me an illustration.'
Just, О king, as the architect of a city ?, when he wants to build one, would first search out a pleasant spot of ground, with which no fault can be found, even, with no hills or gullies in it, free from rough ground and rocks, not open to the danger of attack. And then, when he has made plain any rough places there may still be on it, he would clear it thoroughly of all stumps and stakes, and would proceed to build there a city fine and regular, measured out into suitable quarters :, with trenches and ramparts thrown up around it“, with strong gateways, watch-towers, and battlements, with wide squares and open places and junctions (where two roads meet) and cross-ways (where four
where, at pp. 37, 335 (of the Pâli), our author reverses the order of Nos. 4 and 5—the five moral Powers and the five Organs (of the higher sense)—which are really only the same mental qualities looked at from two different points of view.
1 These verses have not been traced as yet in the Pitakas.
% There is another parable of the architect above, p. 34 of the Pali (I, 53 of the translation).
3 Bhâgaso mitam, an expression constantly recurring. * Ukkinna. See Gâtaka IV, 106,
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