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THE QUESTIONS AND PUZZLES
VII, 2, 22.
the strenuous Bhikshu, earnest in effort, never be satisfied with receiving instruction, with asking and answering questions, with listening to the word, and learning it by heart, and examining into it, with hearing the Abhidhamma and the Vinaya, and the deep sayings of the Suttas, with analysis of forms, with learning the rules of right composition, conjunction, and grammatical construction', with listening to the ninefold teaching of the Conqueror. This, O king, is the fifth quality of the sea he ought to have. For it was said, O king, by the Blessed One, the god over all gods, in the Sutasoma Gâtaka %: " Just as the fire, in burning grass and sticks,
Is never satisfied, nor the great sea Filled with the waters of all streams that flowSo are these students wise, O king of kings, Listening, ne'er sated with the words of truth."
Here ends the Second Chapter.
1 The translation is here doubtful. The Simhalese apparently takes viggaha as qualifying pada, though it renders the whole by
learning the rules of resolving words into their elements, and of building them up into compounds, and of Sandhi, and of conjugation, and of declension.'
Not reached as yet in Professor Fausböll's edition. Mr. Trenckner says the verse quoted is No. 47 in the 537th Gátaka.
The Simhalese reads Evam hi me for Evam h' ime, and renders listening to me. Mr. Trenckner points out that the Gataka MSS. read Evam pi te.
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