Pali - Every few days - [B027]
Gair/Karunatillake - Chapter 3 �Readings
Ex. 1. (Part 2 of 2)

�Bhante Naagasena, na ca sa.mkamati, pa.tisandahati
caa?� ti.
�Venerable Nagasena, one does not transmigrate and one
is reborn?�

�AAma, mahaaraaja, na ca sa.mkamati pa.tisandahati
caa�ti.
�Yes, great king, one does not transmigrate and one is
reborn.�

�Katham,bhante Naagasena, na ca sa.mkamati
pa.tisandahati ca? Opamma.m karohii� ti.
�How, venerable Nagasena, is it that one does not
transmigrate and one is reborn? Give me an analogy.�

�Yathaa, mahaaraaja, kocideva puriso padiipato
padiipa.m padiipeyya, kinnu kho so, mahaaraaja,
padiipo padiipamhaa sa.mkamanto?� ti.
�Just as, great king, if someone kindled one lamp from
another, is it indeed so, great king, that the lamp
would transmigrate from the other lamp?�

�Na hi bhante� ti.
�Certainly not, venerable sir.�

�Evameva kho, mahaaraaja, na ca sa.mkamati
pa.tisandahati caa� ti.
�Indeed just so, great king, one does not transmigrate
and one is reborn.�
(Miln. III.5.5. Buddhavaggo,
Asa.mkamanapa.tisandahanapa~nho)


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