Early Monastic Buddhism v2.c36.57

v2.c36.57

But when the same question is repeated by the Sam. (as in paras 2 and 6),¹ the Th. reply in the negative by saying "na h' evam",² because the answer is to be given to a question which included both *sammutisacca* (conventional truth) and *paramatthasacca* (the highest truth). The questions and answers which follow next have mixture of both *sammuti* and *paramattha* truths, and so they appear contradictory to a superficial reader.