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up his feet and in putting them down, in going or returning, in stretching his arm or drawing it back,wherever he is he should be mindful and selfpossessed. This, O king, is the fifth quality of the elephant he ought to have. For it was said, O king, by the Blessed One, the god over all gods, in the most excellent Samyutta Nikaya :
OF MILINDA THE KING.
"Good is restraint in action, And good restraint in speech, Good is restraint in mind, Restraint throughout is good. Well guarded is he said to be
Who is ashamed of sin, in all things self-controlled 1."'
Here ends the Fourth Chapter.
1 From the Samyutta III, 1, 5, 6. The first four lines are also included in the Dhammapada collection, verse 361.
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