{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/sbe35/sbe3501.htm","path":"bud/sbe35/sbe3501.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe35/sbe3501.htm","text":"| INTRODUCTION | xi | \n| The Simhalese version of the Milinda | xii | \n| Buddhaghosa's four references to it. | xiv | \n| MSS. and edition of the text | xvi | \n| King Milinda the same as Menander | xviii | \n| Notices of him in classical writers | xix | \n| His coins | xx | \n| His birthplace, Kalasi, probably = Karisi | xxiii | \n| The author not the same as N\u00e2g\u00e2rguna | xxv | \n| Passages in the Pitakas referred to silently | xxvii | \n| P\u00e2li books, &c., referred to by name | xxix | \n| Pitaka passages quoted | xxxi | \n| Length of the Pitakas | xxxvi | \n| Results of these comparisons | xxxviii | \n| Differences between our author and the Pitakas | xl | \n| Proper names outside the Pitakas | xliii | \n| Differences of language between our author and the Pitakas | xlv | \n| The Milinda as a work of art | xlviii | \n| TRANSLATION OF THE TEXT. | | \n| Book I. The Secular Narrative | 1 | \n| Description of S\u00e2gala | 2 | \n| Previous births of Milinda and N\u00e2gasena | 4 | \n| Milinda's greatness and wisdom and love of disputation | 6 | \n| Birth story of N\u00e2gasena | 10 | \n| His admission as a novice into the Order | 20 | \n| His conversion | 25 | \n| His attainment of Arahatship | 29 | \n| Milinda confutes \u00c2yup\u00e2la | 30 | \n| N\u00e2gasena arrives; his character | 34 | \n| Milinda goes to him | 36 | \n| p. viii | | \n| Book II. The Distinguishing Characteristics of Ethical Qualities | 40 | \n| Individuality and name | 41 | \n| The chariot simile | 43 | \n| The riddle of seniority | 45 | \n| (Interlude) How kings and scholars respectively discuss | 46 | \n| No soul in the breath | 48 | \n| Aim of Buddhist renunciation | 49 | \n| Re-incarnation | 50 | \n| Wisdom and reasoning distinguished | 51 | \n| 'Virtue's the base' | 53 | \n| Faith | 54 | \n| Perseverance | 57 | \n| Mindfulness | 58 | \n| Meditation | 60 | \n| Continued identity and re-individualisation | 63-77 | \n| Wisdom and intelligence distinguished | 66 | \n| Time | 77 | \n| Origin and development of qualities | 82 | \n| Is there a soul? | 86 | \n| Thought and sight | 89 | \n| Contact, sensation, and idea | 92 | \n| Book III. The Removal of Difficulties | 100 | \n| Rich and poor | 100 | \n| Renunciation again | 101 | \n| Nirv\u00e2na and Karma | 106 | \n| Difficulties of various kinds as to transmigration, individuality, and the Buddha | 120 | \n| Book IV. The Solving of Dilemmas | 137 | \n| Milinda finds dilemmas in the Holy Writ | 137 | \n| And takes the Buddhist vows | 138 | \n| Third meeting between him and N\u00e2gasena. | 140 | \n| 1st Dilemma. If the Buddha has really quite passed away, what is the good of paying honour to his relics? | 144 | \n| 2nd Dilemma. How can the Buddha be omniscient, when it is said that he reflects? | 154 | \n| 3rd Dilemma. Why did he admit Devadatta to the Order, if he knew of the schism he would create? | 162 | \n| p. ix | | \n| 4th Dilemma. Vessantara's earthquake | 170 | \n| 5th Dilemma. King Sivi | 179 | \n| 7th Dilemma. Difference in prophecies as to the duration of the faith | 185 | \n| 8th Dilemma. The Buddha's sinlessness and his sufferings | 190 | \n| 9th Dilemma. Why should the Buddha have meditated? | 196 | \n| 10th Dilemma. Why did the Buddha boast? | 198 | \n| 11th Dilemma. How could the Buddha revoke regulations he had made? | 202 | \n| 12th Dilemma. Why did the Buddha refuse to answer certain questions? | 204 | \n| 13th Dilemma. Contradictory statements by the Buddha as to fear | 206 | \n| 14th Dilemma. How can Pirit cure disease? | 213 | \n| 15th Dilemma. How could the evil one turn people against the Buddha? | 219 | \n| 16th Dilemma. Contradiction as to conscious crime | 224 | \n| 17th Dilemma. Contradiction as to the Buddha's wish to be the chief | 225 | \n| 18th Dilemma. How could a schism have arisen in the Buddha's life? | 227 | \n| 19th Dilemma. Why do members of the Order accept reverence? | 232 | \n| 20th Dilemma. The evil results of preaching | 234 | \n| 22nd Dilemma. Was not the Buddha once angry with Sudinna? | 237 | \n| 23rd Dilemma. The tree talking | 241 | \n| 24th Dilemma. The Buddha's last meal | 242 | \n| 25th Dilemma. Adoration of relics | 246 | \n| 26th Dilemma. The splinter of rock | 248 | \n| 27th Dilemma. Contradictory description of the Samana | 251 | \n| 28th Dilemma. Buddha's boasting | 253 | \n| 29th Dilemma. How can the kind punish others? | 254 | \n| 30th Dilemma. Was not the Buddha angry at K\u00e2tum\u00e2? | 257 | \n| 31st Dilemma. How could Moggall\u00e2na have had miraculous powers seeing that he was murdered? | 261 | \n| 32nd Dilemma. Why should the rules of the Order be kept secret? | 264 | \n| 33rd Dilemma. Contradictions about falsehood | 268 | \n| p. x | | \n| 34th Dilemma. Did not the Omniscient One once doubt? | 270 | \n| 35th Dilemma. Suicide | 273 | \n| 36th Dilemma. Love to all beings | 279 | \n| 37th Dilemma. Wickedness and prosperity | 283 | \n| 38th Dilemma. Women's wiles | 294 | \n| 39th Dilemma. Did not the Arahats once show fear? | 297 | \n| 40th Dilemma. Did not the Omniscient One once change his mind? | 301 | \n| Appendix. Devadatta in the G\u00e2takas | 303 | \n| Addenda et Corrigenda | 305 | \n| Index of Proper Names | 307 | \n| Index of Subjects | 311 | \n| Transliteration of Oriental Alphabets adopted for the Translations of the Sacred Books of the East | 317 |","title":"The Questions of King Milinda (SBE35): Contents","type":"page"}