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up from his bed or going to sleep again, at the same time professing good thoughts, good words, and good deeds, and rejecting evil thoughts, evil words, and evil deeds.'
12. What is the one recital of the praise of Holiness that is worth ten thousand others in greatness, goodness, and fairness ?'
13. Ahura Mazda answered : It is that one, O holy Zarathustra ! that a man delivers when waking up and rising from sleep, at the same time professing good thoughts, good words, and good deeds, and rejecting evil thoughts, evil words, and evil deeds.'
14. What is the one recital of the praise of Holiness that is worth this Karshvare of ours, Hvaniratha !, with its cattle and its chariots, without its men, in greatness, goodness, and fairness ?'
15. Ahura Mazda answered: 'It is that one, O holy Zarathustra ! that a man delivers in the last moments of his life, at the same time professing good thoughts, good words, and good deeds, and rejecting evil thoughts, evil words, and evil deeds.'
16. What is the one recital of the praise of Holiness that is worth all that is between the earth and the heavens, and this earth, and that luminous space, and all the good things made by Mazda, that are the offspring of the good principle in greatness, goodness, and fairness ?'
17. Ahura Mazda answered: 'It is that one, O holy Zarathustra ! that a man delivers to renounce evil thoughts, evil words, and evil deeds a.'
i See p. 123, note 5. . In a conversion, or in the recital of the penitential prayers.
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| SR No. | 007677 |
| Book Title | Saddharma Pundarika |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | H Kern |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1884 |
| Total Pages | 2546 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 46 MB |