Questions of King Milinda Part 02

SR No.: 007682
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: T W Rhys Davids
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1894
Total Pages: 2240
Language: English
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IV, 8, 16.
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be covered up with a saucer or a winnowing fan1, could never be put into a cowpen like a calf, or made use of as one [283]; just so could no one whatever keep in use, as his slaves, the children of Vessantara, who were, in the world, like Uposatha the elephant king.
15. 'And hear, O king, another reason. Just, king, as the mighty ocean is great in length and breadth, and deep, not to be measured, and hard to cross, impossible to fathom or to cover up, and no one could close it in and make use of it as a single ferry, just so could no one whatever keep in use, as his slaves, the children of Vessantara, as esteemed in the world as the mighty ocean.
16. And hear another reason, O king. Just as the Himalaya, the king of the mountains, five leagues high, and three thousand leagues in extent at the circumference, with its ranges of eight and forty thousand peaks, the source of five hundred rivers, the dwelling-place of multitudes of mighty creatures, the producer of manifold perfumes, enriched with hundreds of magical drugs, is seen to rise aloft, like a cloud, in the centre (of the earth); like it, O king, could no one whatever keep in use, as his slaves, the children of Vessantara, as esteemed in the world as Himâlaya, the mountain king.
'And hear another reason, O king. Just as a
OF MILINDA THE KING.
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Suppena vâ sarâvena vâ. Hînafi-kumburê renders the first of these words by kullaka, which is a winnowing-basket; and the second by malâ waka, which I do not understand. But the use of sarâva at Gâtaka I, 8, 14 and Sumangala I, 298 seems to me to confirm Childers's rendering.
Mahâbhûta: 'Yakshas' says Hînafi-kumburê, p. 419. Compare above, p. 250 (of the Pâli).
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