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and they are not both cold, the pain cannot come from the cold. How then, o king, can they both hurt you, since they are not both hot, nor both cold, and (as one is hot and the other cold) the pain comes neither from the hot nor from the cold?'
•I am not equal to argument with you. Be so good, Sir, as to explain how the matter stands.
Then the Elder reasoned with king Milinda, persuading him by talk on the subject drawn from the Abhidhamma, such as: 'There are these six pleasures, O king, connected with life in the world, and these other six with renunciation. There are six griefs connected with life in the world, and six with renunciation. There are six kinds of indifference to pleasure and to grief connected with life in the world, and six with renunciation. [46] Altogether there are thus six series of six, that is to say, thirtysix kinds of sensations in the present, and the like number in the past, and the like in the future. And adding all these up in one total we arrive at one hundred and eight kinds of sensation.'
Well put, Nâgasena!'
6? The king said: 'What is it, Nâgasena, that is reborn ?'
Name-and-form is reborn.' “What, is it this same name-and-form that is reborn ?'
No: but by this name-and-form deeds are done, good or evil, and by these deeds (this Karma) another name-and-form is reborn.'
This dialogue is in Hardy, p. 429 (No. 7).
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