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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through study becomes easy to him, and the four fruits of the life of a recluse', [359] the four kinds of Discrimination, the threefold Knowledge, the sixfold higher Wisdom, in a word, the whole religion of the recluses becomes his very own, an anointed king he, and over him is borne the pure white sunshade of emancipation!
19. Just, O king, as all the citizens and country folk in the land, the soldiers and the peons (royal messengers), wait in service upon a Kshatriya king, born to the purple, and on both sides of lineage high, when he has been consecrated with the inauguration ceremonies of the Kshatriyas; the thirty-eight divisions of the royal retinue, and the dancing men, and acrobats, and the soothsayers",
VI, 19.
OF MILINDA THE KING.
1 These are the four stages of the path to Arahatship. 'Patisambhidâ in worldly things, and in religion, in intuitive knowledge, and in exposition.
Tisso Viggâ. One explanation of this term is the knowledge of the three limitations of individuality,-its impermanence, the pain involved in the struggle to maintain it, and the absence of any permanent principle (any soul) in any individual. But it is also explained in the Anguttara Nikâya III, 58, as meaning the knowledge firstly of one's own former births, secondly of other people's former births, and thirdly of the nature, the origin, and the right method of subduing sorrow and the âsavas (that is, lust, individuality, delusion, and ignorance). The first triplet is identical with the three lakkhanas, the second with the last three of the Dasabalas, the ten powers of a Buddha. So in the Sutta Vibhanga (Pârâgika I, 1-8) the last of these three is called tatiyâ vigga. Compare also 'Buddhist Suttas,' p. 162.
The Abhiññâs.
Some details of this are given in the Simhalese, p. 524.
• Mukha-mangalikâ, which the Simhalese repeats, and which apparently means 'panegyrists.' The exact connotation of both these terms has yet to be settled. Sotthi vâkakâ may correspond with the people who throw rice after a departing wedding pair;
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