This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 edition. Excerpt: ...may deliberately take perfumes, or a garland, or a cloth, and place it on the Aetiya, making the resolve: "May such and such a wonder take place!" Thus is it that wonders occur by the resolve of human beings at the A'etiya of one entirely set free. 52. 'These, O king, are the three kinds of people by ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 edition. Excerpt: ...may deliberately take perfumes, or a garland, or a cloth, and place it on the Aetiya, making the resolve: "May such and such a wonder take place!" Thus is it that wonders occur by the resolve of human beings at the A'etiya of one entirely set free. 52. 'These, O king, are the three kinds of people by whose stedfast resolve wonders take place at the A'etiyas of Arahats deceased. And if there has been no such resolve, O king, by one of these, then 1 Mr. Trenckner prints evara-nama as qualifying Tetiya. The Sinhalese, p. 451, takes it as I have rendered. is there no wonder at the A'etiya even of one whose asavas had been destroyed, who had attained to the sixfold insight, who was master of himself. And if there be no such wonder, then, O king, 310 one should call to mind the purity of conduct one has seen 1, and draw in trusting faith the conclusion: "Verily, this child of the Buddhas has been entirely set free!"' 'Very good, Nagasena! That is so, and I accept it as you say.' Here ends the dilemma as to wonders at the grave. dilemma The Seventy-eighth, Conversion And Conduct. 53. 'Venerable Nagasena, those who regulate their lives aright--do they all attain to insight into the Truth, or are there some of them who do not?' 'Some do, O king, and some do not.' 'Then which do, Sir, and which do not?' 'He who is born as an animal, O king, even though he regulate his life aright, will not attain to insight into the Truth, nor he who is born in 1 These words are very ambiguous, and unfortunately the Sinhalese (p. 452), though much expanded, is equally so. The kind of wonder referred to throughout the dilemma is also doubtful. The only one of the kind mentioned, so far as I know, in the Pi/akas is that referred to in the ' Book of the Great...
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