Vii. Galiya Sutta
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Vii. \"G"Liya Sutta.
[is The Soul Distinct From The Body?]
[\"This Sutta having been incorporated, word for word, as" 15-19, "inclusive, in the last Sutta, the reader is referred to the translation given there."
The Mahli Sutta must have already included, when the Dgha was put together, this "G"liya episode. For there would otherwise be no reason for the Mahli Sutta being put into the Slakkhanda Vagga, the Slas being contained only in that episode.
Why then should the episode appear also again, in full, as a separate Sutta? Is it merely because of the importance of the question? We have another instance of a similar kind, where the episode of Nigrodha's question, only referred to at 23 of the Kassapa-Shanda Sutta, is set out afterwards, in full, in the Udumbarka Shanda Sutta (No. 25 in the Dgha). But there the whole episode is not given twice in full. Such cross-references are fairly frequent in the Pi"t"akas, and are of importance for the history of the literature. One of the most striking cases is where the Sa"m"yutta quotes a Sutta, now contained in the Dgha, by name. (Sakka-pa"h"a Sutta, S. Iii, 13; compare Sum. I, 51; Mil. 350.)]
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{p. 205}
Vii. \"G"Liya Sutta.
[is The Soul Distinct From The Body?]
[\"This Sutta having been incorporated, word for word, as" 15-19, "inclusive, in the last Sutta, the reader is referred to the translation given there."
The Mahli Sutta must have already included, when the Dgha was put together, this "G"liya episode. For there would otherwise be no reason for the Mahli Sutta being put into the Slakkhanda Vagga, the Slas being contained only in that episode.
Why then should the episode appear also again, in full, as a separate Sutta? Is it merely because of the importance of the question? We have another instance of a similar kind, where the episode of Nigrodha's question, only referred to at 23 of the Kassapa-Shanda Sutta, is set out afterwards, in full, in the Udumbarka Shanda Sutta (No. 25 in the Dgha). But there the whole episode is not given twice in full. Such cross-references are fairly frequent in the Pi"t"akas, and are of importance for the history of the literature. One of the most striking cases is where the Sa"m"yutta quotes a Sutta, now contained in the Dgha, by name. (Sakka-pa"h"a Sutta, S. Iii, 13; compare Sum. I, 51; Mil. 350.)]
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