Can KN Mil Milinda be properly classified as EBT? Friend argues not.

 A friend wrote to me:

I meant this page: https://s.4nt.org/kn/index.html where Milinda is not marked as non-ebt etc... let alone it's only canonized in Myanmar only.

I didn't study it much, but lets say 2 out of 3 times i've opened Milinda panha due to an important topics it was adhamma: 

#1 is Buddha all-seeing all-knowing?

‘samaṇo gotamo sabbaññū sabbadassāvī, aparisesaṁ ñāṇadassanaṁ paṭijānāti,

‘The ascetic Gotama claims to be all-knowing and all-seeing, to know and see everything without exception, thus:

mn71 https://find.dhamma.gift/read/?s=sabba%C3%B1%C3%B1&q=mn71#5.2

Here the Buddha explicitly says that this is not how he spoke.

But here, Nāgasena says: "Yes, Your Majesty, the Buddha is all-seeing and all-knowing." https://suttacentral.net/mil3.6.2/en/kelly?lang=en&layout=sidebyside&reference=none&notes=none&highlight=false&script=latin

#2 Lay aharant

And this is the passage I was referring to during the lesson. It's quite a controversial topic and, as I understand it, a favorite one among lay Buddhists: Can a layperson become an arahant?

“atthi nu kho, bho gotama, koci gihī gihisaṁyojanaṁ appahāya kāyassa bhedā dukkhassantakaro”ti?

mn71 https://find.dhamma.gift/read/?s=gihisa%E1%B9%81yojan&q=mn71#11.2

Here The Buddha gives a profound answer, stating that this is impossible even at the moment of death.

But here, Nāgasena clearly says that it is possible for a layperson: https://suttacentral.net/mil6.2.2/pli/ms?lang=en&layout=plain&reference=none&notes=none&highlight=false&script=latin 

yo gihī arahattaṁ patto... 

Some more on mil that is against 4 Nikayas

Sabbepi, mahārāja, bodhisattā puttadāraṁ denti,

na vessantareneva raññā puttadāraṁ dinnan”t

They use term Bodhisatta not like in 4 Nikayas.

In 5 Nikayas Bodhisatta is either tusita and last human life or death in Tusita and last human life. 

Example. 

Of usage of Bodhisatta term from 4 Nikayas. 

Atha kho bhikkhave vipassī bodhisatto tusitā kāyā cavitvā sato sampajāno mātukucchiṁ okkami |

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Example how Buddha described his other lifes. Never used Bodhisatta: 

Ahaṁ tena samayena so rathakāro ahosiṁ |

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Example where Buddha uses term Bodhisatta: 

It's always his last birth. 

Pubbeva me bhikkhave sambodhā anabhisambuddhassa bodhisattasseva sato etadahosi

 I think you can create an AI agent with 4 Nikayas texts as knowledge base and ask it to go through all Milinda panha and check how far away it is. 

(Ofc it's difficult to measure in % because of the weight and importance of particular topics. 

But it's a good kpi as well: how this or any other text helps to clarify 4nt in general.)