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VII, 7, 20.
OF MILINDA THE KING.
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two. Taking together all those that have been, and those that have not been, handed down, there are three hundred plus four, all of which are reckoned as 'Questions of Milinda ?'
19. On the conclusion of this putting of puzzles and giving of solutions between the king and the Elder, this great earth, eighty-four thousand leagues in extent, shook six times even to its ocean boundary, the lightnings flashed, the gods poured down a rainfall of flowers from heaven, Maha Brahmâ himself signified his applause, and there was a mighty roar like the crashing and thundering of a storm in the mighty deep. And on beholding that wonder, the five hundred high ministers of the king, and all the inhabitants of the city of Sagala who were there, and the women of the king's palace, bowed down before Nâgasena, the great teacher, raising their clasped hands to their foreheads, and departed thence ?
20. [420] But Milinda the king was filled with joy of heart, and all pride was suppressed within him. And he became aware of the virtue that lay in the religion of the Buddhas, he ceased to have any doubt at all in the Three Gems“, he tarried no longer in the jungle of heresy, he renounced all obstinacy; and pleased beyond measure at the high
1 There are only thirty-eight in the list at VII, 1, 1.
. Before these last sentences (Now those ...... Milinda), Hînafi-kumburê has: "Here ends that mirror of the good law called, “The Questions of Milinda."' Then he goes on as above.
I here follow Hînafi-kumbure, who has apparently had a fuller text before him.
• The Buddha, his religion, and his order.
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| SR No. | 007682 |
| Book Title | Questions of King Milinda Part 02 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | T W Rhys Davids |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1894 |
| Total Pages | 2240 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 38 MB |