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VII. Note on the Middle Country of Ancient India
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 March 2011
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Numerous examples might be quoted of philosophical, or political, or religious parties who have claimed for themselves a central, or a moderate, position, far removed from the ignorances and foolishnesses of the extremists on either side. There are even cases in which the critical historian may observe that, on a fair survey of the points in dispute at the time and place in question, the claim is fairly justified. So the Buddha claimed for his view of life that it was the Middle Way between worldliness, or indifference, on the one side, and asceticism on the other. So Aristotle described the ideal virtue as the Golden Mean.
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page 84 note 1 See Vin., 1. 319 = Mahāvagga, ix, 4. 1.
page 85 note 1 The quotation ia given by Childers in his notes to the edition of the Khuddaka Pāṭha (J.R.A.S., October, 1869, p. 20 of the author's reprint).
page 85 note 2 Vol. i, p. 173, of Rhys Davids' and Carpenter's edition for the Pali Text Society.
page 85 note 3 See the references given in “ Buddhist India,” p. 201; and Jātaka, 1. 49.
page 86 note 1 Strong's edition (P.T.S.), p. 12.
page 86 note 2 Sarvavatī, and Savāravatī, in other MSS.
page 87 note 1 On this interesting school see “ Buddhist India,” p. 144.
page 89 note 1 See Mr.Smith, Vincent, J.R.A.S., 1903, p. 691Google Scholar.
page 90 note 1 “ Buddhist India,” pp. 30, 103, 111.
page 91 note 1 “ Ancient Coins and Measures of Ceylon,” pp. 27–29.
page 91 note 2 See “ Buddhist India,” pp. 33, 104.
page 92 note 1 S.B.E., vol. xiv, p. 2.
page 93 note 1 “ Vinaya Texts,” ii, 38.