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SIKAND-GOMÂNÎK VIGÂR.
work of the sagacious creator, (25) owing to] the purposely-made work?, is manifested the existence of an injurer from without.
CHAPTER VIII. 1. Again, about the existence of a competing and different original evolution ?, there are these (2) that are manifest from the good and evil which are in the world, (3) and the particulars of its good maker which are self-limited. 4. Such as darkness and light, (5) erudition and ignorance, (6) perfume and stench, (7) life and death, (8) sickness and health, (9) order (dâd) and disorder, (10) distress and freedom from care (âzâdih), (11) and other co-existing : factors whose certain existence is visible in every district and land, and every age. 12. So that no district or land whatever is discovered, nor yet any age has existed or shall exist, (13) wherein these good and bad terms and particulars have not existed or do not . exist. 14. And it is not possible to say, as to any place or age, that good and evil are changeable in themselves by their own nature.
15. So, moreover, of the other co-existences whose difference is not through different duty, through different species, or through different quality—(16) as the difference of those of a like nature among one another, such as male and female, (17) of the varieties
evidently by mistake, as it is necessary to complete the meaning of the sentence.
· Made for the purpose of frustrating the designs of the fiend, which he foresaw (see Chap. VIII, 51, 71).
? See Chap. IV, 73 n. * And, therefore, competing, as their natures are different.
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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 |