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THE QUESTIONS AND PUZZLES
VII, 3, 16.
darkness of ignorance, and make the light of knowledge to appear. This is the fifth quality of fire he ought to have. For it was said, O king, by the Blessed One, the god over all gods, in his exhortation to Rahula, his son:
[385] “ Practise thyself, Rahula, in that meditation which acts like fire. Thereby shall no wrong dispositions, which have not yet arisen, arise within thee, nor shall they that have arisen bear sway over thy heart 1.".
24. WIND. 16. Venerable Nâgasena, those five qualities of wind which you say he ought to take, which are they?'
Just, О king, as wind pervades the spaces in the woods and groves in flowering time; so, O king, should the strenuous Bhikshu, earnest in effort, rejoice in the groves of meditation that are all in blossom with the sweet flowers of emancipation. This, o king, is the first quality of wind he ought to have.
17. ‘And again, O king, as wind sets all the trees that grow upon the earth in agitation, bends them
1 Not traced as yet exactly in these words. But the passage at Magghima Nikaya I, 424, lines 3-6, agrees with it throughout, except that for akusala dhamma here we have there manâ pamanâ pâ phassâ, which comes to much the same thing. As the words are there addressed to Rahula, and as our passage here is introduced with the same formula as the quotation below (p. 388 of the Pâli) which is certainly taken from the same page of the Magghima, I think the above (M. I, 424, lines 3-6) is most probably the passage our author now intended to quote. If so, we have here a real case of difference in reading.
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| SR No. | 007682 |
| Book Title | Questions of King Milinda Part 02 |
| 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 |