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The book presents the Romanised Pali text of Milindapanhapali along with its English translation and index to familiarise the readers with a work inquiring into fundamental questions on Buddhism. The Milindapanhapali is a text that presents the dialogue between King Milinda and the monk Nagasena on fundamentals of Buddhism. The text presents the distinguishing characteristic of ethical qualities and the questions and answers between them that throw light on a variety of concepts and aspects: the origin and development of qualities, the soul, wisdom and intelligence, contact, sensation and idea, nirvana and karma. The dialogue probes questions relating to how could the Buddha be omniscient, the Buddha’s sinlessness and his sufferings, meditations of the Buddha, and contradictions relating to the Buddha and his refusal to answer certain questions. They throw light on the solving of dilemmas and the problem of inference, the vows of Buddhism and similes of Arhatship.