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CHAPTER XLIV, 15-XLV, 4.
25. And its goodness is this, that the life of the people is three hundred years ?, (26) and of the oxen and sheep one hundred and fifty years. 27. Their pain and sickness, also, are little ; (28) they fabricate (drūgênd) 2 no lies, (29) they make no lamentation and weeping, (30) and the domination of the demon of greediness (âz) in their bodies is little. 31. When they eat one loaf among ten men, they are satisfied. 32. And in every forty years one child is born from one woman and one man ?. 33. Their law, also, is goodness, and their religion the primitive faith ; (34) and when they die they are righteous 6. 35. Their spiritual chief (rata), likewise, is Gôpasto, and their lord and king is Srôsh?
CHAPTER XLV. 1. The sage asked the spirit of wisdom (2) thus : By what does Aharman most deceive and lead people to hell ? 3. And from what is his pleasure most? 4. Where is the place he has a foundation ?
i Compare Chap. LXII, 18. 2 L19 has drenzinend, 'they cause to repeat.' 3 Compare Chap. LXII, 17.
- Av. paoiryô-dkaêsha, a term applied to the true Mazdaworshipping religion of all ages, both before and after the time of Zaratust.
6 That is, they go at once to heaven, as the righteous soul does (see Chap. II, 123-157).
L19 has Gôpatshâh, the king of Gôpat' (as in Chap. LXII, 8, 31), which land is described in Dd. XC, 4 as 'coterminous with Aîrân-vêgô.' Aghrêrad and his son are called kings of Gôpat in Bd. XXIX, 5, XXXI, 22; and Gôk-pato is said to be in the nonAryan countries,' in the Südkar Nask (see Dd. XC, 8n).
? Apparently the angel Srôsh (see Chap. II, 115).
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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 |