Buddhist India c19.55

c19.55

¹ This is a technical term of the Buddhist system of self-training. They were originally threefold,—the mental intoxication arising from lusts, that arising from the craving after a future life, and that arising from ignorance. Then a fourth was added—the intoxication of mind arising from dogmas, or speculative metaphysics. The Arahat has none at all of these. Asoka's good layman is to have “but little.”—See Rhys-Davids, *Dialogues of the Buddha*, vol. i., p. 92.