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(i) Would the Buddba make statements wbich are displeasing and unpleasant to others ? ( bhäseyya nu kho......Tathāgato tari vācam ya sci vacă paresam appiya amanā pa ).
(ii) If so, how is he different from the ordinary individual who also makes statements which are displeasing and unpleasant to others ? (atha kiñcarahi..... puthujjanena nakaranam, puthujjano pi hi tam vācam bhāseyya, yä si vācā paresam appiya umanapa ).
(ii) The Buddha would not make statements which are displeasing and unpleasant to others (na T'athāgato tam vācām bhasati ya si vācii paresuri appiya ):
(iv) Then why has he pronounced about Devadatta that he is doomed to hell .....that he is incorrigible ( atha kiñcarakr......Devadatta byakato : a payiko Derudutto ryūkato ; ā payiko Devadatta atckicu Devadatto ?
Here .1! havad tried to show that the Buddha made a selfcontradictorv statement. Likewise, A stbandhak putta Gāmani22 a follower of Nigantha Nitaputta made the following remarks about the Buddhi as he understood him.
(i) The Buddha in various ways speak, showing compassion to people ( Bhagavii aneha parıyiyena kulānam anuddayam vanneti ).
(11) The Buddha during a famine... ..goes about with a Jarge number of disciples and behaves in a way detrimental to the interest of people ( Bhagavā dubbhikkhe .....mahatā bhikkusanghena saddhim carikan carati, ucchedaya Bhagava kulānam Patipanno ).
The questions asked by Abhaya Rājakumāra and Asibandhakaputta Gāmaņi are based on such type of framed questions : If he qestioned thus and he answers thus, we shall join issue ( vadain ) with him thus."28 They are called "dupadan penham or "abhayatok ofikam pantham" ( dilemmas ) 24 As a matter of fact, these are the conditional questions, which would have been thought out or taught before embarking on a dispute
