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Cf. Dhammap. v. 290 + (Pakinnakav., v. 1):Mattāsukha pariccăgā passe ce vipulaṁ sukham Caje mattåsukham dhiro sampassam vipulaṁ sukham.
Cf. Udānav., ch. xxx. (" Happiness"), v. 32 :-- “If the stedfast man seeks for great happiness, and would
give up little happiness, let him cast away the little happiness and look well to the great one."
Notes. The probable restoration of the Prakrit veree would
be :
(matra)sulaparicai (pase' yi vivula dula caji') matrasuha dhiro sabaśu vi(vn)la suha O
--Two words are important: matra=Pali unitta, Sk. mātrā, 'a smaller measure, and vivula=Pāli and sk. vipulum, ' a larger measure'. Oparicai=Pāli pariccāgā. Cf. unucii (I. B. 3, p. 25)=Pāli npaccagā. The verse teaches that when a man has a choice between two measures of happiness, he ought to strive for the larger one. The principle inculcated is not Utilitarian, i.e., the greatest happiness of the greatest number. The happiness aimed at is an individual experience. In the Devadaha Sutta (Majjhima, No. 101) Buddha refutes the Jaina theory of the quantification of pleasure and pain. In his opinion one cannot say this quantity of pain (ellakam dahkhun) is due to self, and that to not-felf. Here the idea of quantity implies no more than intensity of feeling.
... U.eşu anusua (usu)eşu manuseşu viharamu anusua o
(Cro, 27) Cf. Dhammap., v. 199 + (Suklav., v. 3) :--
Susukhari vata jīvāna ussukesu anugsukā Ussukesn inanusscsu vibarama anussuka.
I From a comparison with the form bhare (Sahnsiv, vv. 3, 5, pp. 158, 159).
: Cf. tho form cari, Aprumadas. y. 1, p. 119; Panitry., .7, p. 175. There aro many other instances of such Optativo forms cuding in i.
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