Questions of King Milinda Part 02

SR No.: 007682
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

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V, 8.
OF MILINDA THE KING.
the virtue that is fivefold and eightfold and tenfold', and the virtue of self-restraint tabulated in the five recitations that compose the Pâtimokkha2. And this, O king, is what is called "The Blessed One's bazaar of perfumes." For it has been said, O king, by the Blessed One, the god over all gods:
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'No flower's scent can go against the wind,
Not sandal wood's, nor musk's, nor jasmine flower's:
But the sweet perfume of the good doth go Against the wind, and the good man pervades, On every side, the sweetness of his life "."
"Red sandal wood, musk, and the lotus, and jasmine
The perfume of goodness surpasseth them all. Abundant the sweet scent of musk and of sandal wood
Still stronger, the scent of the good mounts to heaven!"'
8. 'And what, venerable Nâgasena, bazaar of the Blessed One, the Buddha?'
the fruit
'Certain fruits have been made known, O king, by the Blessed One. And they are these:-The fruit of the first stage of the Excellent Way (con
1 These are respectively the first five, the first eight, and the whole ten, of the Precepts set out in my 'Buddhism,' p. 160.
The whole of this text is translated in vol. xiii of the 'Sacred Books of the East.' The silas here enumerated are only the lower morality. The higher ethics come below in § 12.
From Anguttara Nikâya III, 79. The verse is quoted in the Dhammapada, verse 54, and also in the Gâtaka Book, III, 291.
It is not known where these lines originally stood. But they are quoted in the Dhammapada, verses 55, 56, and also in the Gâtaka Book loc. cit., and in the Sumangala Vilâsinî, p. 56.
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