A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s6.t4.369
A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s6.t4.369
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v2.c19.s6.t4.369
After this excursion into the metaphysics of silence,—for that is really the true essence of the doctrine of unreality—namely that the answer to any question can only be a silence—the poet comes back to the earth in the concluding chapter (X), and the work ends with an earnest prayer for the welfare of all beings, even for the beings in the hells, and with entreaties to the Bodhisattva Mañjuśrī.¹