Text of Confucianism Part 02

SR No.: 007676
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: James Legge
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1882
Total Pages: 2405
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 43 MB

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DÂDISTÂN-Î DÎNÎK.
of the fiend when the celestial spirit (a h vô) pertaining to the luminaries was not contended with by him, his defeat (makhitantano) when the luminaries were not defeated by him, his infliction of punishment before sin, and his causing hatred before hatred exists are all recounted by it to the justice and judiciousness whose unchangeableness, will, persistence, and freedom from hatred—which is the character of its faithful ones-are not so', to him who is the primeval (pêsako) creator.
18. The fiend, after his falsity, the struggle-on account of the fighting of the shining ones and the decreed keeping him away which was due to the fighter for the luminaries—and the ill-success of the struggle of himself and army, ordered the beating back of the worthy fighter against destruction, the malicious avenging again of the causer of hatred, and the destroyer's internal vileness and disorganisation anew of his own place. 19. He saw the beneficent actions by which, through the wisdom of Adharmazd, the spiritual wisdom?, within the allotted (burin-hômônd) time, the limited space, the restricted conflict, the moderate trouble, and the definite (fargâm-hômand) labour existing, struggles against the fiend, who is the unlawful establisher of the wizard; and he returned inside to fall disarmed (a sâmâno) and alive, and until he shall be fully tormented (par-dardag-hae) and shall be thoroughly experienced, they shall not s let him out again in the allotted time that the fiend ordered for the success of falsehood and lies. 20.
That is, they are altogether different from the faults of the fiend, just recounted.
? Perhaps the same as 'the spirit of wisdom of Mkh. • Reading lâ, not,' instead of râi, on account of.'
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