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CHAPTER V, 93-v1, 18.
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this, that things are only worldly, and there is no spirit.
9. As I have written and shown above!_(10) that to be made without a maker, and decided without a decider, is as impossible as to prepare what is written without a writer, or a house without a mortar-mixer (râz)2 and building (dêsâk)—(11) things made, of all kinds, cannot arise without making.
12. And this worldly existence is owing to the mingling of competing powers. 13. So its numerous possessions are so constructed, selected, and made of diverse races (kiharân), diverse colours, diverse scents, diverse characteristics, and diverse species as I have stated above about the body, (14) that it is constructed and made out of many things, such as bone, fat, sinew, veins, skin, blood, breath, hair“, fundament", hand, foot, head, belly, and other members, internal and external, (15) in two series of things of many kinds, of which to be never made by means of the diverse nature of diverse powers, (16) or to arise without a maker, the impossibility is certain.
17. And in like manner of the other creatures, plants and trees, water and fire, earth and air, their stimulus, too, which is not themselves, is to their own duty; and they are not stimulators, (18) but there is a stimulator, a building (dêsåk), and a making for
1 Chap. V, 27-30. * Sans. has carpenter.' 8 Chap. V, 57-63.
• Assuming that Pâz, vas is a misreading of Pahl. varas. Nêr. has Sans. rasa, 'liquid secretion.'
Supposing that Pâz. daryam (Sans. nishthâ) stands for Pahl. dar-î dum. • Literally columns.'
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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 |