Saddharma Pundarika

SR No.: 007677
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

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UNELT CALLE 55:
CHAPTER VIII, 30-56.
41. For it is known that work due to workers is of two kinds, designed or qualified. 42. That which is designed is of three kinds. 43. Two are due to the wise and sagacious ; (44) either through seeking for their own working of advantage and benefit, (45) or through removing and keeping away the harm and evil which are from without. 46. And one is due to the ignorant and unwise, (47) done defectively and without a purpose. 48. From the wise and sagacious, work ought not to arise without a purpose and without a cause.
49. As the sagacious creator, who is all-knowing, perfectly capable, and fully complete in his own self, has sought that which is not a necessity for any advantage and aggrandizement of his from without ?, (50) it is, therefore, necessary to understand that the purpose and causes of his works are of that one kind , (51) to remove and keep away the harm which . is due to his opponent and the injurer who may arise from without, which is itself the purpose and cause of the creation of the creatures. 52. Also this, that that sagacious creator is good-willed, (53) and his will is all goodness. 54. The creatures were also created by him predominantly of his own will. 55. And the completely-stirring desire of him who is good-willed and sagacious is to subdue 4 evil and make it extinct, (56) for while evil is not subdued the
1 Reading sazêd, as in JE, because, although AK, PB3, MH19 have Paz. sa hed, seems,' Nêr, uses Sans. saknoti..
* And, therefore, cannot have been actuated by the design mentioned in § 44. s Mentioned in § 45.
Reading kh vâftano, instead of Pâz. anâftan, which is almost identical in writing; and making a similar correction in $ 56.
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