Studies in the Origins of Buddhism c8.69

c8.69

DN. 13—early.—DN. 13 is, barring repetitions, a medium-sized spirited dialogue, full of good-humoured irony and fittingly illustrated by upamās. Of these, that of the Janapadakalyāṇī has already occurred; the two new upamās are: of the river Aciravati and of the Andhaveṇī. The latter is placed among the “original” upamās by Mrs. Rhys Davids.²⁴