Blind men and elephants

[Anand.Nayak at unifr.ch]

>Dear Indology netters,
>
>the following poem is based on an Indian text. On behalf of someone else, I
>have a couple of questions.
>
>1) Which Indian text relates the story of the blind men and the elephant?
>

The story appears in some Theravada Buddhist  texts: v.g. Dirgha-agama,
Lokaprajnaptisutra ( ed. of Taisho Issaikyo, No.1, pp.128-129).

All the best.   Anand NAYAK

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