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perplexing? 5. Which tiel is the pleasanter ? 6. Which work is the more regretable? 7. And which gift is the more unprofitable?'
8. The spirit of wisdom answered (9) thus : ‘That man is the mightier who is able to struggle with his own fiends 2; (10) and, in particular, he who keeps these five fiends far from his person, (11) which are such as greediness, wrath, lust, disgrace, and discontent. 12. The road in passing over the Kindvar bridge 3 is the more dreadful. 13. The account for a soul of the wicked is the more perplexing. 14. The tie of children is the pleasanter and more desirable. 15. That work is the more regretable which they do for the ungrateful. 16. And that gift is the more unprofitable which they give to the unworthy !
CHAPTER XLII. 1. The sage asked the spirit of wisdom (2) thus : How many kinds of man are there?'
3. The spirit of wisdom answered (4) thus : 'There are three kinds of man, (5) one is man, one is demiman, and one is demi-demon.
6. 'A man is he who is without doubt as to the creativeness of Adharmazd, the destructiveness of Aharman, and the existence of the resurrection and future existence; and also as regards every other happiness and misery, in the worldly and spiritual
1 K43 has bôî, 'scent,' which is distinguished from band, tie,' only by diacritical marks in Pahlavi.
His own passions and failings personified as fiends. 3 See Chap. II, 115, 162. • Lig has 'to the ungrateful and unworthy.'
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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 |