From phma@webjockey.net Wed Feb 13 15:20:38 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_2); 13 Feb 2002 23:20:37 -0000 Received: (qmail 26196 invoked from network); 13 Feb 2002 23:20:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.172) by m9.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 13 Feb 2002 23:20:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO neofelis.ixazon.lan) (208.150.110.21) by mta2.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 13 Feb 2002 23:20:37 -0000 Received: by neofelis.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 500) id 3015F3C478; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 18:20:32 -0500 (EST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: Subject: Re: [lojban] [OT]Argumentum ad elephantum Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 18:20:31 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: In-Reply-To: X-Spamtrap: fesmri@ixazon.dynip.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <02021318203114.16980@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com From: Pierre Abbat X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=92712300 On Wednesday 13 February 2002 16:47, Craig wrote: > >Siddhartha Gautama's claim to having originated this story does not go > > unchallenged. Since it fits in so well with Jaina theory (syadvada, > saptibhangi), > > >the claim of Mahavira is probably better. > > Rumi wrote a poem about this. He does not say it was his idea, but he does > have the best version I have seen. I just put the first verse of The Six Men and the Elephant on the Wiki. Anyone like to do the rest? phma