Saddharma Pundarika

SR No.: 007677
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

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DÎNÂ-I MAÎNÔG- KHIRAD.
17. 'Every good and the reverse which happen to mankind, and also the other creatures, happen through the seven planets and the twelve constellations 2 18. And those twelve constellations are such as in revelation are the twelve chieftains who are on the side of Adharmazd, (19) and those seven planets are called the seven chieftains who are on the side of Aharman. 20. Those seven planets pervert every creature and creation, and deliver them up to death and every evil. 21. And, as it were, those twelve constellations and seven planets are organizing and managing the world.
22. ' Adharmazd is wishing good, and never approves nor contemplates evil. 23. Aharman is wishing evil, and does not meditate nor approve anything good whatever. 24. Adharmazd, when he wishes it, is able to alter as regards the creatures of Aharman; and Aharman, too, it is, who, when [he wishes]' it, can do so as regards the creatures of Adharmazd, (25) but he is only able to alter so that in the final effect there may be no injury of Adharmazd, (26) because the final victory is Adharmazd's own. 27. For it is declared, that "the Yimo and
1 L19 has evil.'
The zodiacal signs. 8 L19 has are called in revelation. The authority, here quoted, was not the Bundahis, because that book speaks of seven chieftains of the constellations opposed to the seven planets (see Bd. V, 1).
* L19 omits and seven planets,' but has a blank space at this place in both texts, Pâzand and Sanskrit.
0 K43 omits the words in brackets, which may, perhaps, be superfluous in the Pahlavi text.
6 Av. Yima or Yima khshaêta of Vend. II, the Jamshed of the Shâhnâmah, some of whose deeds are mentioned in Chap. XXVII, 24-33, Yas. IX, 13-20. He was the third of the Pêsdad dynasty, and is said to have been perverted by Aharman in his old
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