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As another evidence of the way in which fact and fiction have been mixed and manipulated for a purpose, one of the legends, which has often been presented as a parallel to the story of Christ, represents the Buddha as repelling the temptation of Mara by quoting texts of "scripture," and the scripture referred to was the "Dhammapada."
She enjoyed this kind of thinking and writing, and seems to have been unwearying in her search after authorities to sustain her views. The maxims, too, which she was fond of jotting down here and there, and which furnished the texts for long dissertations, show the serious drift of her thoughts, and their clearness and beauty.
The texts quoted above leave the Buddha occupied in teaching the five monks in the Deer Park and the Mahâvagga gives us the text of the sermon with which he opened his instruction. It is entitled Turning the Wheel of Righteousness, and is also known as The Sermon at Benares.
The text-book actually quotes sacred texts to show that caste depends on conduct, not on birth, and refers to bygone cases of promotion of heroes to a higher caste without rebirth. Its final pronouncement on caste is that "unless the abuses that are interwoven with it can be eliminated, its doom is certain."
To these Imperial Rescripts some of the poems composed by his present Majesty may be added. In fact, a volume on the whole duty of Japanese man, with selected Imperial poems as texts, has already appeared. The Court has always devoted much time to the practice of this art.
Possibly the view is correct which recognizes two nearly-allied dialects as existing side by side in Iran during its flourishing period one prevailing towards the west, the other towards the east one Medo-Persic, the other Sogdo-Bactrian the former represented to us by the cuneiform inscriptions, the latter by the Zend texts.
But there was no one in the eastern Church neither the emperor Mauritius, nor the patriarch John the Faster, nor the patriarch Eulogius who failed to acknowledge the Pope's charge over the whole Church, grounded on the three texts to Peter.
Some of his attributes are also those of Brahmâ. Though in some late texts he is said to have evolved the world from himself, his characteristic function is not to create but, like Vishnu, to save and like Vishnu he holds a lotus. But also he has the title of Îśvara, which is specially applied to Śiva.
An hour a day, in the open air, with fears and anxieties and schemes all cast aside, in companionship with kindred spirits similarly divested of that which troubles and makes afraid, all engaged in recreative sports, would do more to make us physically well, morally strong, and civilly decent than all the pills of the doctors, all the texts of the preachers, and all the keys of the jailers!
'Have thou authority over ten cities. These are the Christian aspects of death. II. Now note, secondly, the great fact on which this view of death builds itself. I have already remarked that in one of my texts the Apostle seems to be thinking about Jesus Christ and His decease.
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