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TEMPLE, May, 1894.
INTRODUCTION.
emancipation alone makes a man an Arahat1, or whether the breaking of the Fetters constitutes Arahatship, and whether the insight into Arahatship suffices to break all the Fetters, and so on.
The discussion of these details gives no opportunity for the enthusiastic eloquence of the author of our Milinda, and the very fact of his eloquence argues a later date. But there can be no doubt as to the superiority of his style. And I still adhere to the opinions expressed in the former Introduction that the work, as it stands in the Pâli, is of its kind (that is, as a book of apologetic controversy) the best in point of style that had then been written in any country; and that it is the masterpiece of Indian prose.
T. W. RHYS DAVIDS.
1 Katha Vatthu V, I.
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Katha Vatthu V, 10, and X, I.
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