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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VI, 4.
OF MILINDA THE KING.
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three hundred millions of believing men and deities penetrated to a knowledge (of the four Truths). And again at Kapila-vatthu among the Sakyas, at the preaching of the Buddhavamsa? in the Nigrodha Arâma, and again at the preaching of the Maha Samaya Suttanta?, gods in numbers that cannot be counted penetrated to a knowledge of the Dhamma. And again at the assemblies on the occasions of Sumana the garland maker 3, and of Garahadinna, and of Ananda the rich man, and of Gambuka the naked ascetic", and of Mandûka the god, and of Matta-kundali the god, and of Sulasa the courtesan, and of Sirimâ the courtesan, and of the weaver's daughter, and of Subhaddâ, and of the spectacle of the cremation of the Brahman of Sâketa, and of the Sanâparantas, and of the problem put by Sakka", and of the Tirokudda Sutta?, and of the Ratana Sutta 8-at each of these eighty-four thousand penetrated to a knowledge of the Dhamma. So long, O king, as the Blessed One remained in the world, so long wheresoever in the three great divisions
is doubtful. Alwis, in another connection, renders it prosperity.' See his quotation from Buddhaghosa's Papañka Sadanî quoted by Childers sub voce. The Simhalese has râpa-kaya-sampat dakwa dakwa, continually manifesting (to all the world) the glory of his outward form.'
See the commentary on that work quoted by Dr. Morris in his edition for the Pali Text Society, pp. viii-x.
. See the opening words of that discourse, No. 20 in the Digha, in Grimblot.
. See above, pp. 115, 291 of the Pâli. • Compare Thera Gathâ 283-286. • Her whole story is given, Gataka III, 435 foll. • The account of which is in the Dîgha, No. 21. 7 In the Khuddaka Patha. • In the Sutta Nipata and Khuddaka Pâlha.
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