THE FIVE MENTAL HINDRANCES
                           AND THEIR CONQUEST
                                          
                                          
                                          
                          Selected Texts from
                  the Pali Canon and the Commentaries
                                          
                                          
                                          
                        Compiled and translated 
                                   by
                           Nyanaponika Thera
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                      BUDDHIST PUBLICATION SOCIETY
                        KANDY              SRI LANKA
  
  
                      Buddhist Publication Society
                      P.O. Box 61
                      No. 54, Sangaharaja Mawatha
                      Kandy, Sri Lanka
  
                      First published by the Bauddha Sahitya 
                        Sabha, Colombo, 1947.
                      First BPS edition (revised and enlarged)
                      published in 1961. Reprinted 1973.
                      Second BPS edition (revised), 1984.
                      Third BPS edition (revised), 1993.
  
                      Copyright _ 1961, 1984, 1993
                      by the Buddhist Publication Society
                      
                      ISBN 955-24-0111-9
                      
                      
                      THE WHEEL PUBLICATION NO. 26
                      
                      
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