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on the second night, it sits in Good Deeds; on the third night, it goes along the ways (to Garô-nmâna).
55. “At the end of the third night, O my son, Frashaostra ! when the dawn appears, it seems to the soul of the faithful one as if it were brought amidst plants (and scents: it seems as if a wind were blowing from the region of the south, from the regions of the south]', a sweet-scented wind, sweeter-scented than any other wind in the world, and it seems to his soul as if he were inhaling that wind with the nose, and it asks, saying: “Whence does that wind blow, the sweetest-scented wind I ever inhaled with my nose?”
56. 'And it seems to him as if his own conscience were advancing to him in that wind, in the shape of a maiden fair, bright, white-armed, strong, tallformed, high-standing, thick-breasted, beautiful of body, noble, of a glorious seed, of the size of a maid in her fifteenth year, as fair as the fairest things in the world.
57. And the soul of the faithful one addressed her, asking :“What maid art thou, who art the fairest maid I have ever seen ?”
58. 'And she, being his own conscience, answers him: “O thou youth, of good thoughts, good words, and good deeds, of good religion! I am thy own conscience.
""Everybody did love thee for that greatness, goodness, fairness, sweet-scentedness, victorious strength, and freedom from sorrow, in which thou
($ 61), but in the thought and delightful remembrance of his good words (cf. Yt. XXII, 2).
1 Supplied from Yt. XXII, 7.
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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 |