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[Jonathan Silk]

>On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Jonathan Silk wrote:
>
>> well, of course there are 404 diseases in Buddhist texts...
>
>Oh?  Didn't know that.   Are they listed?  Where is this?
>
 I have never seen a list, but there is (somewhere--all my notes are at
home) an explanation -- I believe it comes from 4 x 101, but I (as they
say) disremember why at the moment...


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