Texts From the Buddhist Canon : Commonly Known As Dhammapada
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The title, " The Dawn," or " Coming forth of Light," is a very usual and significant one to indicate the "origin" or "cause," and in this sense is a proper rendering of Mdi,na. The preface goes on to state that a Shaman SaSghbhadanga of Ki-pin (Cabul) came to Tchangan (Siganfu) about the nineteenth year of the period Kien-Yuen.l Having travelled back to India and returned with a copy of the present work, it was eventually translated by Fo- nien, with the assistance of others. Without going thro...ugh this voluminous work, we way observe that the whole of the first volume, comprising seventy-four double pages, is occupied with the subject " Impermanency," in which there are stories on stories, and verses on verses, most of which appear to be artificially made for one another; the second subject is "Desire," which occupies twenty-one pages; the third is "Lust," which occupies seventeen pages; the fourth section, however, seems to throw some light on the difference occurring between the tenth chapter of the Chinese earlier versions and the second of the P^li ; in the first the subject is " Careless- ness," in the second it is "Eeflection;" now in the version we are considering the subject is restored to the 1 So far as I can make out, this period Kien-Yuen only lasted two must have been ahout 345 A.D., years, although in the Bai-kwo-tu-chi the INTRODUCTION.
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