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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THE QUESTIONS AND PUZZLES
VI, 4.
Parâbhava' discourse, and of the Purâbheda? discourse, and of the Kalaha-vivada discourse, and of the Kala-vydha' discourse, and of the Maha-vydha?. discourse, and of the Tuwataka? discourse, and of the Sariputtal discourse, an innumerable number of celestial beings penetrated to knowledge (of the four Truths). In the city of Râgagaha three hundred and fifty thousand devout laymen and devout laywomen, disciples of the Blessed One, were walking in the Paths. And there again at the taming of Dhanapåla the great elephant : nine hundred million living beings, and again at the meeting at the Pâsânika Ketiya on the occasion of the Pârâ yana discourse one hundred and forty million living beings, and again at the Indasâla cave eight hundred millions of gods, and again at Benares [350] in the deer park Isipatana at the first preaching of the Dhamma: one hundred and eighty million Brahma gods and innumerable others, and again in the heaven of the Thirty-Three at the preaching of the Abhidhamma on the Pandu Kambala Rock eight hundred millions of the gods, and on the descent from the world of the gods at the gate of the city of Sankassa ®, at the miracle of the manifestation to the world?,
* In the Atthakavagga of the Sutta Nipata. • Sutta Nipâta I, 6.
* See the note above on IV, 4, 44 (p. 207 of the Pali), also below, p. 410 of the Páli.
* Sutta Nipâta, pp. 185, 205 (of Professor Fausböll's edition for the Påli Text Society).
• See Buddhist Suttas,' p. 154, and the note above on I, 38. • Gâtaka IV, 265.
? Loka-vivarana-pâtihâriye, referred to at Dâlhavamsa II, 120. The exact meaning of the second word, literally uncovering,
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