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711.Sukhumatte ca panassa idaṃ opammaṃ.
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Here is a simile for its subtlety.
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Eko kira dārutiṇukkādīsu kataparicayo adiṭṭhapubbapadīpo paccantavāsiko nagaramāgamma antarāpaṇe jalamānaṃ padīpaṃ disvā ekaṃ purisaṃ pucchi ambho "kiṃ nāmetaṃ evaṃ manāpa"nti?
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A border dweller, it seems, who was familiar with torches of wood and grass, etc., but had never seen a lamp before, came to a city. Seeing a lamp burning in the market, he asked a man, “I say, what is that lovely thing called?”
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Tamenaṃ so āha "kimettha manāpaṃ, padīpo nāmesa telakkhayena vaṭṭikkhayena ca gatamaggopissa na paññāyissatī"ti.
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—“What is lovely about that? It is called a lamp. Where it goes to when its oil and wick are used up no one knows.”
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Tamañño evamāha "idaṃ oḷārikaṃ, imissā hi vaṭṭiyā anupubbena ḍayhamānāya tatiyabhāge tatiyabhāge jālā itarītaraṃ padesaṃ appatvāva nirujjhissatī"ti.
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Another told him, “That is crudely put; for the flame in each third portion of the wick as it gradually burns up ceases there without reaching the other parts.”
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Tamañño evamāha "idampi oḷārikaṃ, imissā hi aṅgulaṅgulantare aḍḍhaṅgulaḍḍhaṅgulantare tantumhi tantumhi aṃsumhi aṃsumhi jālā itarītaraṃ aṃsuṃ appatvāva nirujjhissati.
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Other told him, “That is crudely put too; for the flame in each inch, in each half-inch, in each thread, in each strand, will cease without reaching the other strands;
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Aṃsuṃ pana muñcitvā na sakkā jālaṃ paññāpetu"nti.
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but the flame cannot appear without a strand.”
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