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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virtue, has taught him to perform Khvêtūk-das. Virtue is its virtue even for this reason, because, for the sake of maintaining a creature with propriety, he reckons upon the proper disposition of the multitude, that which is generated in the race by innumerable Khvêtûk-dases!. And this, too, that. Spendarmad is taught as being in daughterhood to Adharmazd by him whose wisdom consists in complete mindfulness. Even on this account, because wisdom and complete mindfulness? are within the limits of Adharmazd and Spendarmad; wisdom is that which is Adharmazďs, complete mindfulness is that which is Spendarmad's, and complete mindfulness is the progeny of wisdom, just as Spendarmad is of Allharmazd. And from this is expressly the announcement that, by him who has connected complete mindfulness with wisdom, Spendarmad is taught as being in daughterhood to Adharmazd. And this, too, the existence of the formation of that daughterhood, is taught by him whose righteousness consists in complete mindfulness.' This quotation merely shows that Khvêtāk-das referred to connections between near relations, but whether the subsequent allusions to the daughterhood of Spendarmad had reference to the Khvêtāk-das of father and daughter is less certain than in the case of Pahl. Yas. XLIV, 4, previously quoted.
Third, regarding the middle of the twenty-first
1 That is, the useful peculiarities of a particular breed of domestic animals are maintained and intensified by keeping up the purity of the race.
Complete mindfulness' is the usual Pahlavi explanation of Av. armaiti, devotion,' the latter component of the name Spendarmad.
See pp. 392, 393.
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