________________
IV, 6, 411
OF MILINDA THE KING.
75
faultlessness of the system of the Conquerors, and shown it free from blame. And even those who have lapsed make evident how excellent that system is.'
[Here ends the dilemma as to those who
have lapsed.]
[DILEMMA THE FIFTY-SEVENTH. WHY HAVE ARAHATS NO POWER OVER THEIR BODIES?]
40. Venerable Nâgasena, your (members of the Order) say: [253]
"There is one kind of pain only which an Arahat suffers, bodily pain, that is, and not mentali."
How is this, Nagasena? The Arahat keeps his mind going by means of the body. Has the Arahat no lordship, no mastery, no power over the body?' 'No, he has not, O king.'
That, Sir, is not right that over the body, by which he keeps his mind going, he should have neither lordship, nor mastery, nor power. Even a bird, Sir, is lord and master and ruler over the nest in which he dwells.'
41. “There are these ten qualities, O king, inherent in the body, which run after it, as it were, and accompany it from existence to existence? And what are the ten ? Cold and heat, hunger and thirst,
* This passage has not yet been traced in the Pitakas. An almost identical phrase has already been quoted, as said by the Buddha himself, at II, 1, 4 (p. 44 of the Pâli).
• Bhave bhave anuparivattanti. See IV, 4, 41 (p. 204 of the Pali).
Digitized by Google
