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- DÎNIK.
2. The reply is this, that the first consummation of next-of-kin marriage was owing to that which Mashyâih and Mashyâyðihdid, who were brother and sister together, and their consummation of intercourse produced a son’ as a consummation of the first next-of-kin marriage. 3. So that they effected the first intercourse of man with woman, and the entire progress of the races of every kind of lineage of men arose from that, and all the men of the world are of that race.
4. It is truly said, that it was the joy of the lord and creator after the creation of the creatures, and, owing to that, its consummation, which was his complete accomplishment of the existence of the creatures (dà mânih), was owing to him. 5. And its occurrence, too, is in evidence that the creator, who is so with unflinching (a tôrâk) will, is as much the cause of the begetting and entire progress of his own perfect creatures, in whom begetting is by destiny, as Hôshangt by whom two-thirds of the demons were smitten, Tâkhmôrup who overturned Aharman through the power of the angels, Yim by
See Chap. LXIV, 2. The names are here written Mashyêih and Mashyêyôîh.
· Twins, according to Bd. XV, 22, 24.
* That is, he is not only the original creator, but also the perpetual promoter of the increase and progress of the creation, as much as those who appear to be such promoters, though merely acting as his agents.
• Here written Hôshyang. For the Av, names of these four primeval monarchs, see Chap. II, 10 n.
o K35 has three-thirds,' but see âbân Yt. 22, Râm Yt. 8, Zamyâd Yt. 26.
• He is said to have subjugated the evil spirit, and to have used him as a steed for thirty years (see Chaps. II, 10, XXXVII, 35).
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