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burnt-offerings, nor prayers will save a man who is in the bonds of death or old age.
46. An impending evil cannot be averted even by a hundred precautions; what reason then for you to complain ?
47. Even as a calf finds his mother among a thousand cows, an act formerly done is sure to find the perpetrator.
48. Of existing beings the beginning is unknown, the middle (of their career) is known, and the end again unknown; what reason then for you to complain ?
49. As the body of mortals undergoes (successively the vicissitudes of) infancy, youth, and old age, even so will it be transformed into another body (hereafter); a sensible man is not mistaken about that.
50. As a man puts on new clothes in this world, throwing aside those which he formerly wore, even so the self of man puts on new bodies, which are in accordance with his acts (in a former life).
51. No weapons will hurt the self of man, no fire burn it, no waters moisten it, and no wind dry it up.
52. It is not to be hurt, not to be burnt, not to be moistened, and not to be dried up; it is imperishable, perpetual, unchanging, immovable, without beginning
acts of liberality save him, as the use of the particle ka implies.' (Nand.)
47. This proverb is also found in the Mahâbhârata XII, 6760, Panikatantra II, 134, and other works. See Böhtlingk, Ind. Sprüche, 5114.
48. This proverb is also found in the Bhagavadgîtâ II, 28. See Böhtlingk, Ind. Sprüche, 704.
50. Regarding transmigration, see below, XLIV, XLV.
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| SR No. | 007671 |
| Book Title | Zend Avesta Part 01 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | James Darmesteter |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1895 |
| Total Pages | 2695 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 49 MB |