[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Literature, language and dating](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature) › [A History of Indian Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927) › v2.c19.s5.18 # A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s5.18 A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s5.18 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c19.s5.18](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s5.18) ³ This is certainly the standpoint of the author of the Milindapañha. In the Canon we find sometimes a decided denial of the ego, at other times the doctrine that an ego does exist in a certain sense, and frequently the agnostic point of view that it is impossible to say either that there is a soul, or the contrary. \*Cf.\* M. \*Walleser\*, Die philosophische Grundlage des älteren Buddhismus I, 111 ff; Mrs. \*C. A. F. Rhys Davids\*, Buddhist Psychology (1924), pp. 156 ff., 278 ff.; \*Radhakrishnan\*, l.c., 382 ff., 390 ff.; \*Keith\*, Buddhist Philosophy, pp. 75 ff., 191 ff. - [Previous: v2.c19.s5.17](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s5.17) - [Next: v2.c19.s5.19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s5.19) - [Up: v2.c19.s5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s5) ## Linked texts (1) - [Milindapañha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.milindapanha) — Pāli --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s5.18](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s5.18) · Pramāṇa