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SIKAND-GÛMÂNÎK VIGÂR.
them. 19. And the usage (vâzâr) which is changing and urging them, from stimulus to stimulus, from statement to statement, and from time to time, is not according to the will and requirement of those made, but according to those that are stimulating and making.
20. Even so, indicative of the rotation of the years, months, days, and hours, is the revolution of the celestial sphere and stars which are settled (pasakhtak), and of the sun and moon which are adjusted (nivârdak), a well-horsed progress and conspicuous revolution. 21. This, too, is an indication that the movements of every appearance (kiharih) are owing to an exhibitor, by whom the movement of that appearance is exhibited.
22. Owing to other differences and different management in the worldly existence (23) it is possible to know, from the worldly existence at various times and various periods, that this worldly existence is not without a manager. 24. Or that its manager is not a sacred being ?, who is learned, acting reasonably, of unlimited power, and illumining : the sky, is also that which is visible when the development, decay, and death of the world are such, that the nature alike of mankind and animals, and alike of races and trees, is to come from youth to old age, and from old age to death. 25. No one whatever is seen that has come from old age back to youth, or from death back to life, and it is not
Alluding to the supposed horses of the sun. Sans. has brilliant.
* That is, the world cannot be controlled by a sacred being alone, on account of the evil it contains.
9 Sans. has 'making,' another meaning of varz.
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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 |