The king said: ‘Does memory, Nāgasena, always arise subjectively, or is it stirred up by suggestion from outside ?’

‘Both the one and the other.’

‘But does not that amount to all memory being subjective in origin, and never artificial?’

‘If, O king, there were no artificial (imparted) memory, then artisans would have no need of practice, or art, or schooling, and teachers would be useless. But the contrary is the case.’

‘Very good, Nāgasena!’

Here ends the Sixth Chapter.