A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s3.t1.161

v2.c19.s3.t1.161

However little they can be regarded as real proofs, the similes are, after all, the best kind of argumentation which we find in the Suttas. As for the rest, wherever a doctrine is to be proved, we do not find much more than accumulations of synonyms and dogmatic classifications and enumerations,² which are most particularly characteristic of the Aṅguttaranikāya, but occur in all the Nikāyas.