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DÎNÂ-I MAÎNÔG-I KHIRAD.
5. Where, also, is his coming, together with the demons, most? 6. And from what is his food ?'
7. The spirit of wisdom answered (8) thus: 'Aharman deceives people most by prosperity and adversity', the fiend of apostasy, scepticism, and covetousness. 9. His pleasure, also, is most from the discord of men. 10. And his food is from the impenitence 2 and reticence of men. 11. He has a foundation in the malicious 3. 12. And his coming and going are most with the wrathful.'
CHAPTER XLVI. 1. The sage asked the spirit of wisdom (2) thus : Which is the one* oppression, as regards men, that Aharman considers as the more injurious and
great ?'
3. The spirit of wisdom answered (4) thus: 'Aharman, when he wrings life and wife and child and worldly happiness of every kind away from men, does not consider, as to this, that any injury whatever is inflicted by him upon that person ; (5) but when he wrings away the soul of a single individual, and makes it utterly depraved, he then considers, as to this, that "an injury which is complete would thereby be inflicted by me," because this is done by him through his own depravity of wish and action 5.'
1 Or 'superfluity and scarcity.'
2 Assuming that apatôtakih stands for apatîtakih, nonrenunciation of sin.' L19 has 'immoderate eating.'
8 L19 has in the slanderous and malicious.' * L19 omits one.' 6 The last fourteen words occur only in the Pahlavi text of K43.
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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 |