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IV, 6, 1.
OF MILINDA THE KING.
Book IV. CHAPTER 6.
EMMA THE FIFTY-FIRST.
CONTRADICTORY STATEMENTS AS TO THE BUDDHA'S
TEACHER.]
1. [235] Venerable Någasena, this too has been said by the Blessed One:
“I have no teacher, and the man
Equal to me does not exist. No rival to me can be found
In the whole world of gods and men'." But on the other hand he said: “ Thus then, O brethren, Ålara Kalama, when he was my teacher and I was his pupil, placed me on an equality with himself, and honoured me with exceeding great honour ?."
1 This verse is found three times in the Pitakas—in the Mahavagga I, 6, 8, in the Ariya-pariyesana Sutta (Magghima Nikâya I, 171), and in the Angulimåla Sutta (Magghima Nikâya, No. 86). It occurs with other stanzas of a similar tendency, and many of the lines in those stanzas are repeated, but with variations and in a different order, by the author of the Lalita Vistara (pp. 526, 527 of Ragendra Lal Mitra's edition). One verse is found there in two detached lines which run thus in the Sanskrit:
 käryyo na hi me kaskit, sadriso me na vidyate
and
Sadevâsuragandharvvo nâsti me pratipudgalah. Hînabi-kumburê renders patipuggalo, not by 'rival,' but by superior.'
* Mr. Trenckner has pointed out that this quotation is found in two Suttas, Nos. 85 and 100 in the Magghima Nikâya.
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