________________
V, 25.
OF MILINDA THE KING.
243
church of the Conqueror, stringing those flowers together,—both following the path of our teachers of old, and also using such power of wisdom as in me is,-could show forth by inference the power of the Buddha in innumerable similes. But you, on the other hand, must show a desire to hear them?'
'Hard would it be, Nâgasena, for any other men thus to have shown by inference, drawn from such examples, the power of the Buddha. I am filled with satisfaction, venerable Nâgasena, at your so perfectly varied exposition of this problem.'
Here ends the problem of Inference ?
I The Simhalese is here much expanded.
? Mr. Trenckner reads "Anumâna patham,' the Simhalese has. Mahâ Anumâna Prasnayayi.'
R2
Digitized by Google
