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"Mind you go out the same way as I do"? Or would the second tell the first : “The way you go out, I shall go out too"?'
*Certainly not, Sir. There would be no communication between them. They would go that way because that was the gate.'
Just so, great king, with thought and sight.'
Now give me an illustration of thought arising where sight is because of habit.'
What do you think, great king? If one cart went ahead, which way would a second cart go ?'
The same as the first.'
But would the first tell the second to go where it went, [59] or the second tell the first that it would go where it (the first) had gone?'
No, Sir. There would be no communication between the two. The second would follow the first out of habit.'
Just so, great king, with sight and thought.'
Now give me an illustration of how thought arises, where sight has arisen, through association.'
In the art of calculating by using the joints of the fingers as signs or marks', in the art of arithmetic pure and simple?, in the art of estimating the probable
* Mudda. Hînafi-kumburê is here a little fuller than Buddhaghosa at vol. i, p. 95 of the Sumangala. He says: yam se ængili purukhi alwa gena saññá kota kiyana hasta mudra sâstraya, 'the finger-ring art, so called from seizing on the joints of the fingers, and using them as signs.'
• Ganana. Hînati-kumburê says: akkhidra wu ganam sâstraya,'the art of unbroken counting,'which is precisely Buddhaghosa's explanation (confirming the reading we have there adopted), and probably means arithmetic without the aids involved in the last phrase. We have here in that case an interesting peep into the
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