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respective mothers. Will these, who fall into hell by causing 

 the destruction of the mothers that kindly bore them, ever 

 become Grods? 



" Thou saidst in thy false scriptures that the soul is only 

 the effect produced by the concurrence of the four elements, 

 and that there is no such thing as soul distinct from the 

 body. O fool ! tell me, whether thy body knows when a 

 serpent creeps over thy face as thou art sleeping at night. 



" Thou hast not the knowledge of the relation between 

 the body and the soul. When the body dies, the soul 

 instantly separates itself from it, and it is by the concur- 

 rence of the body and the soul that birth is produced: 

 wherefore confess thou with thy mouth that thy body is 

 distinct from thy soul. 



" Thou saidst that there is no ether (dkdsd), and that it 

 does not produce sound, and that it is merely imaginary. 

 Is it not in the ether that the four elements indicated in 

 thy scriptures, namely, earth, water, tire, and wind, exist? 

 confess then that the sound of what thoii utter est is pro- 

 duced by the ether. 



" Thou wouldst say that there are in truth no points of 

 heaven, that they are (also) imaginary, but nevertheless 

 thou offerest adoration to the Bodhi-tree, saying that it 

 stands on the north point. Thy sayings are therefore only 

 meet for an assembly of fools, maniacs, and those who speak 

 falsehood on this earth. 



" Thou wouldst say that the trees are not sentient beings, 

 but how is it then that they, like those who have bodies 

 formed of the five elements, grow, spreading branches, by 

 sucking the water and wither away for want of it ? confess 

 therefore that they are also states of existence appointed 

 by our God for the souls, as rewards or punishment accord- 

 ing to the merits of their works. 



6e Thou wouldst say that it is sin to kill any animal, but 

 nevertheless thou approvest of eating the flesh of an animal 

 that is killed on the earth. Is it then right for thee to per- 

 mit others to incur the sin of killing an animal in order to 

 furnish thee with food to satisfy thy hunger ? 



madassi ; 8. Paduma ; 9. Narado ; 10. Padumutto ; 11. Sumado; 

 12. Sujoto ; 13. Fiadassi ; 14. Atthadassi ; 15. Dhammadassi ; 

 16. Siddatto; 17. Tisso ; 18. Pusso ; 19. Wipassi ; 20. Sik'hi ; 

 21. Wessablm ; 22. Knkusandlio ; 23. Konagamo ; 24. Kasapo ; 

 and 25. Gotamo. 



