This Life Next Life : หน้า 16/130

' This Life Next Life 14 There is another world, there is rebirth not of parents, there is fruit and result of deeds well-done and ill-done. 'You, sirs, are for me trustworthy and reliable, and what you say you have seen, will be even so, just as if I myself had seen it. "They have consented to do this, saying, "Very good, "but they have neither come themselves, nor dispatched a messenger. Now this, Master Kassapa, is evidence for me that there is neither another world, nor rebirth not by human parents, nor fruit or result of deeds well done and ill. ' 7.' Well then, prince, I will yet ask you this, and do you answer even as you think fit. What think you ? Take the case of men who have taken a felon redhanded and bring him up saying: - "My lord, this felon was caught in the act ; inflict what penalty you wish." He replies : - "Well then, sirs, bind this man securely, his arms behind him, with a strong cord; shave his head; lead him around, to the sound of a sharp drum, from street to street, from cross-road to cross - road, and out at the southern gate; there, south of the town in the place of execution, cut off his head." They, assenting with "Very good, "proceed to carry out these orders, and, in the place of execution, make him sit down. Now would the felon gain permission of this sort from his executioners :