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Buddhist birth stories; or, Jataka tales, Volume 1

Note 274 — GLORY BE TO THE BLESSED, THE HOLY, THE ALL-WISE ONE.

Robert Cæsar Childers translation

Ime kilese. The use of the determinative pronoun implies that the king is meant to refer to the particular imperfections known as kilesā. They are acquisitiveness, ill-temper, dullness of perception, vanity, wrong views, doubt, sloth, arrogance, want of self-respect, and want of respect for public opinion.

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