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CONTENTS.
| INTRODUCTION | |
| The Simhalese version of the Milinda | |
| Buddhaghosa's four references to it. | |
| MSS. and edition of the text | |
| King Milinda the same as Menander | |
| Notices of him in classical writers | |
| His coins | |
| His birthplace, Kalasi, probably = Karisi | |
| The author not the same as Nâgârguna | |
| Passages in the Pitakas referred to silently | |
| Pâli books, &c., referred to by name | |
| Pitaka passages quoted | |
| Length of the Pitakas | |
| Results of these comparisons | |
| Differences between our author and the Pitakas | |
| Proper names outside the Pitakas | |
| Differences of language between our author and the Pitakas | |
| The Milinda as a work of art | |
| TRANSLATION OF THE TEXT. |
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| Book I. The Secular Narrative | |
| Description of Sâgala | |
| Previous births of Milinda and Nâgasena | |
| Milinda's greatness and wisdom and love of disputation | |
| Birth story of Nâgasena | |
| His admission as a novice into the Order | |
| His conversion | |
| His attainment of Arahatship | |
| Milinda confutes Âyupâla | |
| Nâgasena arrives; his character | |
| Milinda goes to him | |
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| Book II. The Distinguishing Characteristics of Ethical Qualities | |
| Individuality and name | |
| The chariot simile | |
| The riddle of seniority | |
| (Interlude) How kings and scholars respectively discuss | |
| No soul in the breath | |
| Aim of Buddhist renunciation | |
| Re-incarnation | |
| Wisdom and reasoning distinguished | |
| 'Virtue's the base' | |
| Faith | |
| Perseverance | |
| Mindfulness | |
| Meditation | |
| Continued identity and re-individualisation | 63-77 |
| Wisdom and intelligence distinguished | |
| Time | |
| Origin and development of qualities | |
| Is there a soul? | |
| Thought and sight | |
| Contact, sensation, and idea | |
| Book III. The Removal of Difficulties | |
| Rich and poor | |
| Renunciation again | |
| Nirvâna and Karma | |
| Difficulties of various kinds as to transmigration, individuality, and the Buddha | |
| Book IV. The Solving of Dilemmas | |
| Milinda finds dilemmas in the Holy Writ | |
| And takes the Buddhist vows | |
| Third meeting between him and Nâgasena. | |
| 1st Dilemma. If the Buddha has really quite passed away, what is the good of paying honour to his relics? | |
| 2nd Dilemma. How can the Buddha be omniscient, when it is said that he reflects? | |
| 3rd Dilemma. Why did he admit Devadatta to the Order, if he knew of the schism he would create? | |
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| 4th Dilemma. Vessantara's earthquake | |
| 5th Dilemma. King Sivi | |
| 7th Dilemma. Difference in prophecies as to the duration of the faith | |
| 8th Dilemma. The Buddha's sinlessness and his sufferings | |
| 9th Dilemma. Why should the Buddha have meditated? | |
| 10th Dilemma. Why did the Buddha boast? | |
| 11th Dilemma. How could the Buddha revoke regulations he had made? | |
| 12th Dilemma. Why did the Buddha refuse to answer certain questions? | |
| 13th Dilemma. Contradictory statements by the Buddha as to fear | |
| 14th Dilemma. How can Pirit cure disease? | |
| 15th Dilemma. How could the evil one turn people against the Buddha? | |
| 16th Dilemma. Contradiction as to conscious crime | |
| 17th Dilemma. Contradiction as to the Buddha's wish to be the chief | |
| 18th Dilemma. How could a schism have arisen in the Buddha's life? | |
| 19th Dilemma. Why do members of the Order accept reverence? | |
| 20th Dilemma. The evil results of preaching | |
| 22nd Dilemma. Was not the Buddha once angry with Sudinna? | |
| 23rd Dilemma. The tree talking | |
| 24th Dilemma. The Buddha's last meal | |
| 25th Dilemma. Adoration of relics | |
| 26th Dilemma. The splinter of rock | |
| 27th Dilemma. Contradictory description of the Samana | |
| 28th Dilemma. Buddha's boasting | |
| 29th Dilemma. How can the kind punish others? | |
| 30th Dilemma. Was not the Buddha angry at Kâtumâ? | |
| 31st Dilemma. How could Moggallâna have had miraculous powers seeing that he was murdered? | |
| 32nd Dilemma. Why should the rules of the Order be kept secret? | |
| 33rd Dilemma. Contradictions about falsehood | |
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| 34th Dilemma. Did not the Omniscient One once doubt? | |
| 35th Dilemma. Suicide | |
| 36th Dilemma. Love to all beings | |
| 37th Dilemma. Wickedness and prosperity | |
| 38th Dilemma. Women's wiles | |
| 39th Dilemma. Did not the Arahats once show fear? | |
| 40th Dilemma. Did not the Omniscient One once change his mind? | |
| Appendix. Devadatta in the Gâtakas | |
| Addenda et Corrigenda | |
| Index of Proper Names | 307 |
| Index of Subjects | 311 |
| Transliteration of Oriental Alphabets adopted for the Translations of the Sacred Books of the East | 317 |
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