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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SIKAND-GOMÂNÍK VIGÂR.
bones, (13) and the trees from the hair of the demon Kuni?. 14. The rain is the seed of the Mâzendarâns? who are bound on the celestial sphere. 15. Mankind are two-legged demons, and animals fourlegged. 16. And Kuni is the commander of the army of Aharman, (17) who, to be liberated by 3 his nails from the divinity Adharmazd in the first conflict, swallowed the light; (18) and, in the second conflict, the demon Kuni was captured by them, together with many demons. 19. And it is in binding the demon Kunt on the celestial sphere he is killed, (20) and these magnificent creatures are preserved from him and formed.
21. And the sun and moon are arranged in supremacy in the outer sky; (22) so that, as regards that light which the demons swallowed, they filter and excite* it, little by little, through the exciting and filtering of the sun and moon. 23. Then Aharman knew, through foresight, that they would rapidly filter and release this light through the exciting of the sun and moon. 24. And, for the purpose of not rapidly releasing the light from the darkness, he prepared this lesser world which, like mankind, cattle, and the other living creatures, is a wholly-copied similitude of the greater world
1 So read by Nêr. in Pâz. and Kani in Sans. But there is little doubt that he is the demon Kunda or Kundi of Vend. XI, 28, 36, XIX, 138, whose Pahlavi name is Künd in Pahl. Vend. XIX, 138, and Kundak in Bd. XXVIII, 42, in which latter he is said to be
the steed of wizards.' Kundak is written like Kûnîk in Pahl., and this latter becomes Kunî in Pâz.
? Who are called demons (see Mkh. XX • Sans. has having scratched it with.'
• Assuming that Paz. â harâminend stands for Pahl. a-ârâmînend, they do not leave at rest.'
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