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27. 'He' trembles at the way? made by Time and open both to the wicked and to the righteous.
They 3 tremble at the perfume of his soul“, as a sheep does on which a wolf is falling.
28. “Reciting the whole collection of the Staota Yêsnya prayers brings one up all the way to the blessed Garð-nmâna, the palace beautifully made. That indeed is the way.
29. 'That man does not follow the way of the Law, O Zarathustra ! who commits the Baodhô-(varsta) crime? with a damsel and an old woman,' said Zarathustra to the young king Vistâspa. · "Let him praise the Law, O Spitama Zarathustra ! and long for it and embrace the whole of the Law, as an excellent horse turns back from the wrong way and goes along the right one, smiting the many Druges 10.
30. Go forward with praises, go forward the way of the good Mazdean law and of all those who walk in her ways, men and women.
1 The dead man. : The Kinvat-bridge (Vend. XIX, 29). • The fiends (Vend. XIX, 33). The soul of the righteous.
See page 152, note 1. • The Pahlavi has, 'the way of Zarathustra' (lâ Zartûhstig râs yakhsûnît).
? Wilful murder (Vend. p. 84, note 1). 8 To procure miscarriage (see Vend. XV, 12-14). 9 The sinner.
10 •As a horseman on the back of a good horse, when he has gone the wrong way, perceiving that he has lost his way, turns back his horse from that direction and makes him go the right way; so thou, turn back thy horse to the right way; that is to say, turn him to the way of the Law of Mazda ; that is to say, receive the Law' (Pahl. Comm.).
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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 |