The History of Buddhist Thought c16.25

c16.25

¹ Mund., 3, 2, 8 ; Praśna, 6, 5. It is curious that the same simile of the rivers entering the ocean occurs in Udāna, v, 5, but there the term used is nāma-gotra “ names and clans ”, and it refers there not to loss of individuality but to the literal loss of secular name and clan by one who abandons the world and becomes a son of the Sakyan.