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ANALYSIS OF THE DULVA, 



were sent by their parents. They sit near to each other. Their behaviour 

 during the several exhibitions of spectacles ; — their mutual addresses, after 

 the shows are over ;^ — their answers, each in a single stanza, (leaf 28. J They 

 acquire an atFection for each other ; eager to acquire knowledge, they 

 resolve to enter into some religious order. Pang-skyes begs his parents 

 to permit him to take the religious character ; he is not permitted. His 

 parents, his relations, his coetaneous friends use several arguments to 

 dissuade him from his purpose ; they cannot prevail on him. He will ab^ 

 solutely not partake of any repast until he is permitted. At last he obtains 

 his parents' leave, goes to Nalada to meet there " Nye'-bgyal," who very 

 easily obtains his parents' leave to take the religious character ; — reflections 

 thereupon by Pang-skyes (leaf 33.^ They proceed together to Rojagriha, 

 where about that time there are supposed to have been six celebrated 

 teachers, the masters of six schools of different principles (whose names 

 both Sanscrit and Tibetan are on record). Successively they go before 

 each of them, address them each in these terms: "Master? (shes-ldan, 

 knowing) what is the method of your doctrine? what advice do you give 

 to your pupil ? what is the fruit of an honest life ? (or of good moral 

 practices) what are the benefits thereof?" Each master addresses 

 them thus : Brahman-sons ! and each tells them his own opinion or prin- 

 ciples : — they are with none of them satisfied : they make on each their 

 reflections in the same terms, in one stanza, the meaning of which is this : 

 " He is an ill minded, wrong teaching, and mean fellow, although he is 

 celebrated for a master : if his own professed principles are such, what 

 are those which he does not profess." They leave them with disdain or 

 contempt, on account of their gross atheistical principles. (The names and 

 philosophical principles of those six teachers or masters may be seen, from 

 leaf 33 to 40 of the ^, or first volume of the Dulva.) 



Leaf 40. They become afterwards the pupils of " Yang-dag-bgyal- 

 VA-CHAN." He entrusts them with the instruction of his five hundred 

 disciples. In his sickness, these two young brahmans make every effort 



