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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CHAPTER XXXIV, I-XXXVI, II.
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own body; (17) the fifth, whose destiny is no helper ; (18) the sixth, who is infamous in the eyes of the sacred beings, and on the tongues of the good; (19) and the seventh, who is old, and no child and kindred exist.'
CHAPTER XXXVI. 1. The sage asked the spirit of wisdom (2) thus : Which sin is the more heinous ?'
3. The spirit of wisdom answered (4) thus : 'Of the sin which people commit, unnatural intercourse is the more heinous. 5. The second is he who has suffered or performed intercourse with men. 6. The third, who slays a righteous man. 7. The fourth, who breaks off a next-of-kin marriage? 8. The fifth, who destroys the arrangement of an adopted son (sa tôr). 9. The sixth, who smites the fire of Varahrâm3. 10. The seventh, who kills a waterbeaver 4. 11. The eighth, who worships an idol.
* See Chap. IV, 4 n.
9 If a man has not appointed an adopted son during his lifetime, and leaves property producing an income of eighty-four rûpîs or more, but no privileged wife, or child, or domesticated brother, fit for the duty of guardianship, then an adopted son must be appointed by his nearest relations after his death (see Dd. LVI-LX).
& The sacred fire, named after the angel Varahram or Vâhrâm (see Chap. II, 115).
• The baprak o-1 âvik is the Av, bawris upâpô, with whose skins Ardvisûra, the angel of water, is said to be clothed Äbân Yt. 129). It is said to have been created in opposition to the demon which is in the water' (see Bd. XIX, 29). Whether it is the same as the Av. udra upapa, water-otter,' is not quite certain; but killing the latter was considered (for some reason not clearly ascertained) a very heinous sin, for which the proper atonement is fully detailed in Vend. XIV.
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