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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DADISTÂN-I DİNİK.
seemed to them severe, and thereby arises their forgiveness which is according to whatever anguish is owing to the torment which galls him.
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CHAPTER LXXV.
1. As to the seventy-fourth question and reply, that which you ask is thus: Do the angels have his dead body restored, or not?
2. The reply is this, that there was a high-priest who said that the angels do not have his dead body restored, because of the sin of the mutually-polluting, full of stench, and inglorious victims (khvâpidoân)', the terrible kind of means for the exculpation of creatures, and that practice when males keep specially imperfect in their duty; it being then suitable for mankind to become free from him wholike Az-i Dahâk3, who wanted many most powerful demons-resists and struggles, and is not possessing the perception to extract (patkasistano) a pardon, owing to the course of many demoniacal causes. 3. But innumerable multitudes (amarakânihâ), happily persevering in diligence, have with united observation, unanimously, and with mutual assistance (ham-bangisn thâ) insisted upon this, that they have the dead bodies of all men restored; for
1 Victims of the deceptions practised by the demons (see Chaps. LXXIII, 3, LXXIV, 3); but the reading is uncertain.
2 Probably the punishment of the wicked in hell. See Chap. XXXVII, 97.
Reading farukhvo-tushisn, but it may be perkhûnto dahisn, having begged the boon;' and M14 has pôryôdkeshâno, 'of those of the primitive faith.'
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