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... and was in the habit of rehearsing, by night and by day with clasped hands, a discourse which he had learned, perfect in all its component parts, and sustained throughout in the same lofty strain. A certain Mahathera, Revata, becoming acquainted with...

The Mahávan̥sa, Part II.: Containing Chapters XXXIX. to C - Page 168
by Dhammakitti - 1909 - 518 pages
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Lectures on the Science of Religion: With a Paper on Buddhist Nihilism, and ...

Friedrich Max Müller - Buddhism - 1893 - 324 pages

...1863, p. 33 ; and Maluiuansa, Introduction, p. xxxii. 1. 2.) ' MaMvansa, p. 250. A certain mahathera, Revata, becoming acquainted with him there, and (saying...inquired, 'Who is this who is braying like an ass?' The lirahman replied to him, ' Thou canst define, then, the meaning conveyed in the bray of asses." On...

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