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EDWARD T. STURDY,

BY

WHOSE GENEROUS ASSISTANCE

THE EDITION OF THE COMMENTARY

HAS BEEN RENDERED ACCESSIBLE TO SCHOLARS,

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A TRANSLATION OF THE TEXT TO READERS GENERALL

THIS VOLUME IS DEDICATED

WITH THE CORDIAL REGARD OF HIS FRIEND,

THE TRANSLATOR.

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Yan kinei dhammam abhijaññā
ajjhattam athavāpi bahiddhā."

SUTTA NIPATA, 917.

* Api khvaham āvuso imasmin yeva vyāmamatte kalevare saññiŊhi sa

manake lokam pañìāpemi . . .'

SAMYUTTA NIKAYA, i. 62;= A., ii. 48.

‘Kullūpama và bhikkhave jīnantchi dhamma pi vo pahātablā, pageva . MAJJHIMA NIKHAYA, i. 135.

adhamma.'

Der Buddhismus ist die einzige, eigentlich positivistische Religion die uns die Geschichte zeigt.' NIETZSCHE.

· We shall find that every important philosophical reformation, after a time of too highly strained metaphysical dogmatism or unsatisfying scepticism, has been begun by some man who saw the necessity of looking deeper into the mental constitution.'

G. CROOM ROBERTSON.

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